The Brussels Post, 1915-2-11, Page 6Hints for the Home
Tested Recipe .
Lemon Spalls.—One cup of buttes
and two of ,sugar bete to a foamy
cream, Add to this two eggs and
the grated rind of one large lemon
With ate juice. A scant tcaspoonftt
of soda dissolved in two tablespoon
fills of sweet milk. knead very stiff
with lour, roll out very thin, cut
out in shapes with tin cutter and
bake in quick oven.
Ince Cake, I. okoJname.—Thorough
ly wash and drain four ounces of
rice, .Place in an enamelled sieuce-
pan with a pint of milk, a saltspciun-
ful of salt, half a teaspoonful of
vanilla, and let boil for 45 minutes,
lightly mixing at bottom with a
wooden spoon once in a While. Re-
move to a table, add two table-
spoonfuls of sugar, two tablespoon-
fuls of cream or milk, a whole egg,
the yolk ref another and stir thor-
oughly. Line a pie plate with some
puff paste, Pour ries into the plate,
neatly smooth surface and suet in
oven for 55 minutes.
IJomeentele Sausage Take of
young lean pork one and ane -third
pounds of tenderloin, the rest any
lean cut, four pounds, and lot, two
pounds; put it through a sausage
grinder twice. perhaps three times,
until of the desired fineness. Use
for each pound of meat one teasl
spuenful of powdered dried leaf
"age, one teaspoonful of salt, one-
third teaspoonful of pepper and
one-third of a nutmeg; nutmeg may
be omitted if preferred. A quantity
of sausage may be made at a time
and preserved for regular use if one
has a coke storeroom. It ehonld be
placed in jars and covered an inch
thick with melted lard, wench will
preserve it.
Vassar Cakes. --•These little bites
are cornmeal hoe -cakes, served ho
t.
and eaten with etre-tiled honey,
brown. -sugar, or molasses. But the
•.We has nothing to do with then";
a batter is made with eornmeal and
cold water, seasoned only with salt.
The batter must be so thin that it
literally pours from a tablespoon,
one of which is put at a time on a
hot iron griddle for the cake. The
usual griddle holds three or four
cakes, and as suun as these cook
they are thinly coated with butter
and served on hot plates. The su-
gar, honey or molasses is pat on the
table.
Leman Pudding.—Put two ;,mires
of butter in a saucepan and when
melted stir in slowly one table-
speonful of flour and one table-
setetnful of cornmeal. When the in-
gredients furm a thick paste, add
quickly tine pint of milk and stir
until the mixture has boiled and
thickened. Remove from the stove
and add three rounding tablespoon-
fuls of sugar, the grated rind of one
large lemon and one tablespoonful
of vanilla. Fuld in the yolks of two
eggs which have been beaten pre-
tiausiy and one tablespoonful of
finely chopped 'candied lemon peel.
Add one pinch of salt to the whites
of the eggs and whisk to a stiff
froth. When the pudding is cold
add the whites of the eggs and the
juice of the lemon. Cover with a
thick puff paste, brown in a medium
oven and serve with cream,
Scotch Bun.—Take etS breakfast-
fuls of flour, % lb. butter, 1 tea-
spoonful of baking powder. Mix
these with sufficient water to form
a dough, roll out, grease the inside
of a large cake tin, and line neatly
with the paste, reserving a piece
for the top of the bun. Filling: 1
lb. of flour, % ab. sugar, 2 lbs,
stoned raisins, 2 lbs, currants,
Ib, candied orange peel, ee tea-
spoonful black pepper, one tea-
spoonful carbonate of soda, Se lb.
almonds, blanched and chopped, 34
oz. each of ginger and cinnamon,
one teaspoonful cream of tartar and
a small breakfasteupful of milk, or
enough to barely moisten all. Mix
thoroughly and put in the paste -
lined tin and cover with paste.
Prick all over with a fork, brush
over with egg, and bake about 2im
hours.
Useful hints.
To help out a meatless meal use
cream soups or dishes which include
cheese, beans or eggs.
Rag rugs .made of cotton wash
well, are inexpensive and are often
just the thing for the kitchen.
The bone should be left in a
roast; it will help to keep the juice
in and will add flavor and ,siw-eet-
ness.
.If the aluminum cooking utensils
tura black, try boiling tomato par -
Inge in them and they will brighten.
It is best not to serve the same
dish twice a week unless it be a
vegetable, as everyone likes variety.
When making pastry use the roll-
ing pin well. Measure all ingre-
dients accurately; never guess at
quantities.
One secret of a warm house is
having all the living room windows
facing the soutIh and the north win-
dows h double sashed.
When bolting fish place, an the top
se it some thin slices of saltork.
This bastes the fish 'and makes the
flavor better.
When nailing down a carpet after
the floor has been scrubbed be sure
,that the floor is quite dry, or the
hails will rust and injure the car
pet.
Alum is very useful in the home,
1, and there es nothing better for
mending broken dishes er a lamp
when it is ,loose ixl tette sitocket than
alien welted and used while hot,
'Ito makedit:bey celelothlook now,
give it a than coat of varnish, let.
it dry, then give it a •second coat,
winch will be found better than one
heavy coat:
Doughnuts to be tiarle.at should he
cel cut 'before putting tete fact no to
beat, To make tlhem puffy, keep
the kettle covered in which they
are frying.
Save all, odd bite of cheese, and
when they are dry grate them and
put the grated 'cheese in e. glass jar
to .use for various cooked <listless of.
vegetables and macaroni,
After you have .used all the ham
that will cut nicely from the bone,
and after chipping the remaining
meet for frizzled than, hail, the bone
with cabbage.
Tin is a great saving of the ex-
pense of equipping it kitchen, if
one wishes tha outlay to be as small
as possible. But it should be the
thickly coated kinds
Dresses that have been laid away
in drawers for some time often be-
come very creased. Hang thein in
front of the fire fur it while and the
oreaees will disappear.
There is probably more extrava-
gance in the average home in the
way of wasted light than any other
one item in the whole category of
household expenses, tar so few peo-
ple remember to turn out the lights
not in use.
When cutting cured hams that
you do not wish to use up at once,;
they can be kept fresh and sweet
fur a long time by spreading fresh
lard over the •uewly'out surface,
:3lwaye begin cutting at the end of
the ham, having a saw for the l Brie,
and there will be, no waste what-
ever
New flannel should always be
shrunk before it is made into gar-
ments.
arments. Wash it entirely by itself
in hut water, as warm as the hand
can bear. The. soap should 'be rub-
bed to a lather in the water, or else
tine flannel may become hard. Use
two wi
a •mieaters. Then rinse in a
third in which only a little soap
has been dissolved, also a little in-
digo blue. Wring and shake the
flannel well, and while it is <hyng
:hake, stretch and turn it several
times.
4
BENT FED ARMY IN HISTORY.
The British -army Is R'eli Supplied
With Food.
Dr. F. M. Sandwitll, chairman of
the County of Lancte:1 Branch of the
British bled Cross Society, deliver-
ing the first of a series of three
Chadwick lectures on "War and
Disease at the Lecture Hall of the
Royal Society or Arts, London, late-
ly, contrasted with • former times,
the present excellent condition of
ltealt', in the British Army. which
had been brought about, he said,
by the splendid body of men in the
Royal Army Medical Corps. Just
as the issues in the phesent war
were greater than ever before, so
at least aur knowledge was based
to -day on sounder principles, and
the armies facing each other were
better equipped, better instructed,
and better fitted to endure the hard-
ships of a long and bitter struggle
than ever before. Taking the aver-
age of recent wars fought on land,
out of every 100 deaths 20 had been
clue to wounds and 80 to disease. It
was hard to believe that we would
ever learn the lesson entirely that
courage and goodwill were unable
by themselves to carry us through
when we were pitted against armies
trained and equipped as the enemy
was. We had learned a good deal
and profited by some of carr worst
blunders in the past, and we might
congratulate those who were re-
sponsible on the excellent clothing
and general equipment of the regu-
lar army, for the very good food
which was supplied to .thein, and the
training they had received, Ours
was said to be the army best sup-
plied with food since the world be-
gan.
CONUXDRUMS.
Why are tall people the laziest?
—Because they are always the long-
est in bed.
Why is an industrious tailor
never at home?—Because he is al-
ways cutting out.
My first is a prepasition, my sec-
ond a composition, my third an ae-
quisition—Fortune.
Why is an officer encamped lik;
a person very attentive to the solu-
tion of this conundrum 1—Beeause
he is in -tent,
Where you place your child is my
first; what you make your child is
my second, and a Court ornament
is my whole—Lap-pet.
Why is it lady who is presented
with tickets for ten balls like a law-
yer or a physician?—Because•, she is
paid for at -ten -dances,
My first is to he seen in the eke,
my second . eonquers kings and i
s
queens, and my whole is what I t
would offer to a friend in distrese—
Sol-ace.
What kind of hunting is that in
which neither horses nor hounds •
are used in the .pursuit of game
which is usually of the feminine
gentler ?—•I+ ortun o -hunting.
Mrs. ,Susan Buckles, who died re-
cently near Edinburg, I11., et the
ago of 92, had never •attended a
notion-pietttre show, a Cil'etta or a
theatre and had never ridden on a
main or street car,
ACZ1 I'IT1ES OE
Y011 iV
0
London now etas en allele' police-
woman,
Illinois pays out $112;000 a year
in mothers' pensions,
There are over 1,000 women on
the British Mediate Register.
• Women are being employed to
take moving pictures of war scenes
in France.
Over 8,000 'of New Yomk's i5,000
working women received less than$0.50 a week last year, IL
:arisen Helen :arrisen is manages
of the extensive dairy farm owned
by Janes'. 1. Hill, the mililivnwire
railroad enaguete,
The Countess Lonyay, a daaughtee
of Leopold of Belgiute send once a
future Empress of Austria, is now
a Bed Cross nurse,
MmB
Mane. akhenleteff, wife of the
Russian ambassador to the United
States, has one of the finest collee-
tion of jewels in the world.
Dr. Mary Orew•ford, who has been
assigned to the operating -room in
the American alospital in Paris, as
the only wosean physician in the
hospital.
Fire Commissioner Adamson of
New York has ,appointed Mrs. Olive
P. Shepherd as a fire inspector in
the bureau of fire protection at a
Wary of $1,200 a year.
Twenty-four per cent, of nearly
0,000 women and children employed
in stores, laundries, factories and
telepbone exchanges in. New Or-
leans receive an average wage of
less than $4 per week.
Miss Annie Morgan, a daughter
of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, will
he awarded the grand medal of tate
National Institute of Social Soiene-
es, being'ecjuivalent to. the grand
cross of the French Legion of Hon -
03'.
Mrs. Lorillard Spencer and Miss
Katherine Bufbin of New York, who
recently returned from the Philip -
pis e's, are the first white women who
ever penetrated the mountain fast-
nesses in which the aasage• Mores
make their homes. Both women
spent a whole year amrong the tribes
and came back unharmed.
USING VERY DEADLY SHELLS.
Germans Prepare Explosive That
Causes Intense Suffering.
Sit' William Ramsay:, noted scien-
tist and frequent contributor to the
New York American, writes to the
London Times:
"I enclose a translation of part
of an article which appears in the
current number of Comptes Rendus
of the French Academy of Science.
It is by M. Victor Henri, a French
chemist, of the best reputation. M.
Urbain, whom he quotes, is one of
the most distinguished and reliable
scientific men. M. Henri's article
says:
M. Urbain, who has had an op-
portunity of examining a number of
German shells which failed to ex-
plode, informs' me that explosive
shells of 77 calibre, and shrapnel
shells contain mostly a large quan-
tity: of violet brow -n powder', smell-
ing strongly off white phosphorus,
97 per cent. of which consists of
various kinds of phosphorus, the
red variety predominating in the
explosive shells.
The balls are roughened so as to
retain a certain quantity of the ad-
hering phosphorus, consequently
fragments of the German' shells and
shrapnel carry into the wound more
or less phosphorus.
This ;should be especially called
to the notice of surgeons, for phos-
phorus produces mortification of the
tissues. In contact even with
shrapnel balls, microbes, especially
anaerobic ones, which produce te-
tanus and gangrene, finda medium
favorable to their development and
the wound may become grave.
THE QUEEN'S VOICE, .
Teacher Gave His Frank Opinion
as to Its Quality.
In her youth, Queen Elizabeth of
Roumania spent much time en the
training of her voice, and, encour-
aged by flatterers, came to believe
herself to be a singer of unusual
talent. At length she decided to
have her voice tried by some great
teacher. So she went one day,
dressed very simply, and without
the usual retinue of servants, to see
Professor Dumanois of Bucharest,
and urged him to :give his frank
opinion on the quality of her voice,
and her !future prospects. He test-
ed her voice with great care, first
with the simple scales, then with a
sang, and lastly with an operatic
aria.
When the trial was over, the pro-
fessor said, "I cannot say that you
have is wonderful voice. You sing
fairly ,well, and with not a, little
feeling. I might undertake to train
you to sing in operetta; but to
peak quite frankly, you haven't
he loolca for i"
Up to this time the teacher had
not known that the rank of the as-
pirant was any higher then that of
scores of other young ladies, equally
ambitious, who constantly oaane to
hum. But his surprise was great
when the lady handed him the visit-
ing card of the queen, and he found
that he had before him noless a
personage than royalty itself. The
queen thanked him heartily for the
frank way in which he had judged
her musical ability, and went home
with her .ambition in that direction
decidedly diminished,
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Heir to 'King of Belgium.
A new and hitherto unpublished
photo of Prince Leopold, the youth-
ful heir to the throne of tthe Bel-
gians,
--see--
HOLESe^. --
HOLES 1N TREES.
{'aloe of the Woodpecker in Rifling
Insects.
a country
of woods,
tree or a
h top and
will often
halfway up
limb. Any
once that
It is
tdoubt, .but is
ite home of
fair hint
ofby the big
1 redhead,
like
the
fellow, with
his back
aconstant
vHe has
bof apple
t fruit trees
ofus insect
P
le is not
n
digspurposes. Some
tdeeply to
the hole
get
1 he downy
alsoles near
71 which to
scold nights,
forr as well.
aso, wood-
peckersnesting hole
e found
a long ago.
occupy
tSometimes
it squirrel,
b le bird.
s only an
e woodpeckers
ares• on the
left at the
b
e hole is
ftwho the
newfills the
c squirrel,
withother soft
st ed with
tweb, a
wrenwith fine
sera*,so forth,
probablytenant;
if feathers,
wool,e mu -
pants or
n
ENT.
C by the
1lihen you walk alonng•
road at the edge of a piece
and come to a wild apple
decaying .stump from which
branches have fallen, you
see a round hole in it
its length., or under a'big
youngster twill tell you at
it is a woodpecker's nest
vooclpecker work, no
use, or�vasftever, th
a pair of woodpeckers'?
its size will give yon a
whether it was made
ogcoek, by a flicker or a
or by one of the inserter kinds,
downy or the hairy woodpecker.
He is a little checkered fel
a broad white stripe down
end a red toff, end he is a
visitor to our orchards.
been called an "inspector
Fees," for he cleans the
borers and other injuria
esti.
But a woodpecker's ho
eoessaridy a nest. The woodpecker
hales for other
Some-
times he lies to cut se c
at a big grub heron
looks like a house entry. T•
carves out shallow ha
is real nest as sheltei^s in
spend stormy flays and
he is with us ill wlnte
in smnmer. Then, to
make a new
ach season, so you may have
nest that ivas deserted
Other creatures often
hese abandoned homes.
is a arouse or a flying
bet more often some •lite
Whatever it may be, it fines
empty tenement, since
content to lay their egg
fine, clean, chips that are
onion of their burrows.
By the way in which the
furnished, you may guess
occupant is. A arouse
cavity with grass; a flying
its cast-off fur and
off. If the hole is cram5n
wigs and bits of spider's
has lived there: if
a few feathers, and'
a bluebird was the
it con•sists mostly of
and cottony stuff, the
ants are no doubt chickadees
nuthatches.
INGENIOUS TREATMENT.
Curing Digestive Troubles
fisc of the Magnet.
Among the latest of the mechani-
cal appliances to be harnessed to
bhe work a£ hurna•n healing is the
electro -magnet, which the physician
is likely to find of great value in the
treatment of cerbain bowel affec-
tions that 'have hitherto been found
very intractable. Dr. Payr, accor-
ding to a St. Petersburg medical
journal, is the originator of the
idea.
The patient is required, to take
Arse a quantity of water in which
much iron is suspended in fine par-
ticles. The latter is thus carried to
every part of the digestive tract and
can be acted upon by the magnet
at the will of the operting physi-
cian. In a case of stricture of the
intestines, for instance, the iron
gradually settles at or near the
point of obstruction; The same is
true where there are adhesioue,
which have always given eenvoua
perplexity to the surgeon.
The moment the magnet is ap-
plied, the iron is, of course, attract-
ed with considerable force, and
pushing against the interior wall of
the intestine, has a. tendency to dis-
tend it. The operator is able to di-
rect the "push" in bhe proper direc-
tion, The effect being to dilate the
stricture or release the adhesion,
Dr. Pays points out that, by
means of this simple mechanism,.
the intestines may be exercised at
will, thus greatly strengthening
them" and conducing to health and
long life in the patient. He has
found in his practice then the whole
digest ive system is to be very mater-
ially benefited by a judicious appli-
cation of this treatment and feels
quite. positive that in the electro-
magnet he has bit upon a most em-
cient sticl in the treatment of the
whole long list of gastro-intestinal
maladies,
ASRi,IL TRAM. PREAKINq THE SUNDy A `/ �CHUN, STUDY
One of the Most Impressive 8lphts in u
Nature,
It 4s impossible fc1' one who has
seen only the common mute swans
floating about in the artificial lakes
of city parks to imagine the grandeur
of a flock of the great whistlers in
their wild state. In "Wild Life and
the Camera," Mr. A. 12. Gagmen says
the sight is one of the most impl•esatve
in nature. As the huge birds rise into
the air it seems as if an 1191191 regatta
were belug sailed overhead, the swans,
each with a wing spread of six or
seven feet, moving like yachts under
full sail.
Once the swans are fairly under
way their speed is amasing, nearly a
hundred miles an hour, and Oaf, too,
with no apparent effort, for the slow
wing notion is very deceiving. The
endurance is as surprising as their
speed, for they are said • to travel a
thousand miles without .alighting.
The flocks are usually led by an old
and experienced swan, and it is said
it
orthat It masightce bebecomes called seresttired trailof breabeading;k-
ing, his place is taken by another
whose strength is equal to the task,
and so they continue until they reach
their destination, the southern feeding
grounds of the winter, or the northern
breeding places of the summer. Oa
casionally they stop to rest in the re•
gion of the Great Lakes. Not many
years ago, while on their way north, a
large number stopped above Niagara
Falls, and more than a Hundred were,
by dome extraordinary mischance,
carried over the falls and killed in the
surging waters.
Whether the swans prepare in any
spacial ivay for their southward journ-
ey is not known; but before starting
north they indulge i0 the curious hab-
it known as "ballasting," that is to
say, they eat great quantities of sand,
for what purpose no one knows.
In the far -away Arctic Ocean is their
.breeding place, and It is believed that
they mate for life. .As with so many
of the. water birds, The swans protect
their eggs with a covering of down
scratched from their own breasts, so
that when the birds leave the nest,
the two to six large, yellowish eggs
are hidden from the eyes of possible
thieves, and protected against sudden
Changes -f tempo m eratme.
p
It is many years before the swans
are clothed in the feathers of immacu-
late whiteness that make them such.
conspicuous objects of beauty. Not,
indeed, until the fifth year does all
traces of, gray disappear. The first
feathers are entirely gray; gradually
they lighten, becoming mottled with
white, the neek and head remaining
gray until after the body is completely
white.
THE LAND 0'1' HONEST MEN.
No Loeks on Bairns or Hotel Bed-
. rooms.
A land of almost Utopian simpli-
city is described by a writer in the
Field who a year ago -started on
foot from Innsbruck and went by
way of Landeck to the Stelvio Pass,
and back across the Tirol to Welsch-
nofen, One of the joys of a walking
trip in Tirol, he says, lies rn the
friendship of these exceedingly sim-
ple, honorable, and" religious pea.
sants.
They leave their agrieultural rm-
plereents lying all night in the field,
covered with a heavy cloth, for the
dew is as dishonest wren. these
holy mountains as elsewhere. They
have na hocks on their barns, They
lift a cross with a cry for prayers
and the. remembrance of God at
every quarter of a mile. These cross-
es mark the spot where some poor
soul has died during the wild storms
of winter. How dreadful those tem -
pegs are can be judged from the
feet that we found six such homely
wociden monuments, not one more
than ten years eild, within half a
mile,
At Longarone—whish is over the
Italian border—we discovered that
our ehanulber, the best in the inn,
had its lock screwed on topsy-
turvy, ea that it could not be. fas-
tened. Out in the hallway I bellow-
ed for Maria. She came, all sur-
prise. "But the honorable Herr
cannot have another bedroom with
a better lock, for that's the only
lock in the hotel; the only one in
the village. The landlord bought
it because the foreigners insisted,
but he had never seen a lack before.
If the honorable Herr will wait un-
til to -morrow, perhaps—ah, but
everyone in town, knows the honor-
able travellers are here; everyone
knows that they go a long trip and
mast need much money, so no one
could be wicked enough to attempt
to deprive the honorable Herr and
his honorable Frau of a thing they
need so much."
g,
Soldier a Gold elide.
Three 20 -franc gold pieces have
been extracted from the skin of Pri-
vate Belsey in a Paris hospital. A
piece of shrapnel pierced the pocket
of another soldier, who had coins,
and who was marching allege' of,
Boissey, The shrapnel and the coins
lodged in the log of Boissey, who
didn't halm a. cent• on him before
he was wounded,.
Where did Noah strike the first
nail of the Ark? --0n the head.
A British soldier in Belgium was
one morning wending his Ivey to
camp with a fine rooster in his
arms, when he was' stopped by his
Colonel to know if he had been
stealing chickens. "No, Colonel,''
was the reply. "I saw the old fel-
low sitting on the wall, and. I or-
dered hire to crow for England, and
he wouldn t—so I just took him
prisoner."
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
FEBRUARY 14,
Leffion' VI(. • Samuel (tailed to Be a
Prophet. 1 Sam, 1, 24.28; 3,
Golden 'Wait, 1. sant. 3$ 9,
Verse 1, The .child ' Samuel. minis-
tered ante Jehovah before Eli,---
Samuof, in all prababdlity, wars a
Nazirite (see 1 Sam, 1. 11), He Min-
istered unto the priest In the severe
of aiding 'hien in the divine services
(see Num, 3, 0; 8. 21). His work
was distin•etly religious, Aiternvierds
we read that he was the 'seer whom
Sail and his serve -at 'consulted in a
private diffloulty (see 1 Sam, 9. 1615).
He was, also a; priest (see 1 Sam, 9.
13), ,a judge (see 2 Sane 12), and a
prophet (see 1 Sam, 15),. Between
Moses and the founding of the king-
dom there was none like bin, The
Jewish historian Josephus ease
that Semite] was twelve years all at
the time of our lesson.
The word of Jehovah was precious
in those days,—"Precious" means
„rare,"
No frequent vision.:'1`hat is, no
widely tspreacl or promulgated de.
claratian of God.
2. His eyes had begun to wax
dent, -Practically t'ho same state-
ment is made of Isaac in Gen. 27, 1,
3. The temple of Jehovah where
the ark of God was,—Temple means
tabernacle (see 1 Sam, 1, 9; Psa.
5. 7).
4. Here am I.: This is a usual
greeting when a summons is obeyed.
Itis used in responding to a'call 0f
the Deity se ,well as to a call of
mean. It means, "Here I am to
submit myself to your command"
(see Gen. 22. 1
,7, 11 ; 27. 1, 18).
There are many other such refer-
ences in the 01st Testament,
5-9. The persistence with which
Samuel was called and alto with
which „
ch he i• ]i0 -Jeering
an to D , it was
Eli who celled him, showed to the
aged prophet that Jehovah had a,
message for the boy. One who had
spent his life in serving God as Eli
had won]d> not nristake long the na-
ture of the call which came taSam-
uel.
10. Came
presence is
mere voice.
Abraham an
20, 21, 33) a
11. Both
that hearetl
expression
in the 01cl
2 Kings 21.
miah (7. 12,
the destrect1
Shi-
loh. So also
78. 00-04.
12. All that
has referee
From the
the end,—T1
will he acreage'
13. Be res
did remonstrate
their iniquity
He, however
from office,
pent, Eli, in•
siblc for the
10. Samuel
21, 26).
This
young. It i
comparisons
to how Sam
vah, the s
(2. 52) as to
Let none
reason why
Je-
hovah was w
shaped his 1i
of Jehovah.
20. From
Beer-
sheba.—This
Judg. 20. 1 ;
24. 2. 15; 1
in the extreme
cheba was in
the bordeiso
ment is equivalent
"from Helif
"from the I
Not only dist
dicated by th
ence, also,
Dan to Be
Israel." Dm
the kingdom
Geba to B
23. 8).
and stood: --'A personal
indicated, and not a
See the incident of
d Jehovah (Gen. 18. 17,
and Gideon (Judg'. 6. 14).
the ears of every one
t it shall tingle.—This
occurs only three times
Testament—here and in
13 and Jer. 19. 3, Jere -
14; 26. 6, 9) compares
un of Jerusalem to does the writer of Pea.
I have spoken.—Tails
e to 1 Sam. 2, 27-36.
beginning even unto
tat is, the destruction
nug`i and complete.
trained them not.—Eli
with his sons far
(see 1 Sam. 2. 22.25),
diel not remove them
and, as they did nut re-
pent, became respon-
i.r wickedness,
grew.—(See 1 Sam. 2,
s shows that he Ivsrs
s interesting to make
with this statement as
xis] ,grew before Jeho-
tatenient wade in Luke
how Jesus grew,
of his words fall.—One
Samuel grew when fth him was because he
life so closely to the will
•
Dan even to Beer-
p!hrase appears first in
again an 2 Sam, 17. 11;
Kings 4, 25. Dan was
north and Beer -
the extreme south of
f Israel, and the state -
to our statement
ax be Vancouver,"` or
,ekes to r15 Pacific,"
ante, however, was in-
s phrase; it had refer
to the people. ]Prose
er-shabe, meant ".all.
ring the separation of
the phrase was "from
ser-sh•eba (see 2 Kings
V
Gook's Folty Legend.
One of the most popular legends,
in the country -is that told in Cannec-
tion with Cook's Folly, the residence,
near Bristol, England of the late Sir
elerbert Ashman. The old tower
which stands in the midst of the
building was long years ago built by
a Mr. Cook for the preservation of
his son, whose death by violen:ea be,
fore he reached his twenty-first birth
day had been foretold by a gipsy.
The boy spent many years in safety,
shut up in the towerb but on the
morning of his twenty-first birthday,
when the anxious father 'entered to
release him, he was found dead from
the bite of an adder, which bad been
concealed in some faggots passed
through it window on the previous
evening for tate lad's fire.
.14
Sammy was not prone to over-ex-
ertion in the classroom ; therefore
his mother was both surprised and
delighted when be came home one
noon with the announcement: "I
got 100 this morning." "That's
lovely, Sammy 1" exelainted his
prottd mother, unci she kissed him
tenderly, "What was it in?„
"Fifty in reading anti fifty in 'ride:
merle."
A WATER TRIP
"Tete longer I live with any wife
—and it's gain' onto fifty years now
—ilio less .understand 'bout the
workings of the female mind;" re -
marl ed 'Ogled Dolllver, as he melted
naturally into the terele of idlers in
the Dilmouth poet office, "You
take a man's Idea of what makes a,
payin' day,. and compare it with a•
women's, and you'll 11nc1--eva1, I
d'know jest 'what you will find, if
you 'come to that,
"P'r instance, yesterday mornin''
I.booked up the old Boss to go to
town, I. •wanted to haul in a load.
of track to sell, and there was 'hope
a dozen things I needed ±0 Use'
round the farm -I Feely had to havo
'ems
'When I got ready to start, my
wife came out to the wagon, and
she gave me a list -of things that
shed "wrote off, and she charged,
me over'n over not to fail to. get
'esu, 'cause she needed every one of
'em, So I put her 11s't in with mine
in my weskit pocket and started off,
"When I was engin' by Bowler's,
place, Mi•s' Bowler come to the door
and hailed we: Your wife wants
you on the telephone,' she says. So
I got out of the wagon and went in.
Seems that while I'd been get -
tin' fres;my place down to Bow-
ler's, shed thought of six or seven
more things that she couldn't dot
without, and she wanted me to gee
them, too. I hadn't any pencil
with me to jot 'em down with, but
I thought I could charge my mince
with 'em so's not to forget 'em.
"Wal, my truck sold so much bet -
teen 1 expected that about all the
'things my wife wanted came out of
that extry cash. I was pretty well.
pleased with my day'•s work -get -
tin' any truck in there in the nick' of
time, and gettin' top price fort,
and he tikin two, three
pretty
then m v
P Y
good trades in the things I'd
bought. Take it all round, I don't,
know when I've had a .better ;pa.vin'
day, so I was •feelin' rather better'n.
Common when I drove into the yard'
last night and started to unhitch.
"My wife came out to the wagon.
while I was talcin' the boss out, andi
she began to poke rood after the
things she'd sent fur. I'd taken
most of my things that I'd got for
the farm and barn out of the wag -
had to before I could get out
for they was piled all over me,-
and they mode a pile as big as _ft
small cock of hay. So she didn't,
have anything to bother her, and
she hauled her stuff out of the wag-
on, a .bundle at a time, and pile it
all on the ground there, '1mg_side
of her, and it made a heap that she
could barely..peek ,over.
"She'd got out all the stuff she'd
wrote out on the list, ancereost of
the things she'd held me up and
telephoned 'ibout, when all at once
she begun to scratch round in the
bottom o.f the wagon kind of anx-
ious, ante my mince began. to mis-
give me, although I didn't know
any reason fur't-
`F inally, she says, `Where's that
roll of white tape I told you about
over the telephone'? Is it done up
with some of these other bundles,
or have you got it in your :pocket?'
"'There !' 1 says, 'that's the
hast time I've thought of that tape
since you told me 'bout it this morn -
in' ! I never got it at a11.' And
when I -told her that, she slumped
down on that .pile of bundles anti
let her hands flop right down by
her sides.
"'Good land!' says she. 'Go
clear to town and waste ti,, whole
day, when you might have been
woekin' here to home and then for -
gib -what you went after !• If that
ain't a man all over.!'
"And," concluded Mr. Dolliver,
ruefully, "1 ain't been able to make
her hear reason yet."
6'--
L:l,.1GUA.GII OF 1606 LIVES.
Is 8ti11 Spoken in the Channel
Islands.
The Channel Islands, ,where there
is still in everyday use a patois al-
most identical with .the Norman
French spoken by William the Con-
queror, are the home of other
quaint antiquarian relics. 011e of
them, an acient form of injunction,
was revived in Guernsey last month
says the Nation.
A local politician whose election
as jurat had been annulled by the
royal court of the island on the
ground of his having been sentenced
be ss term of imprisonment 80:111e
years ago, knelt bareheaded at the
entrance to the •courbhowse and ex-
claimecl : "Hee)! Hero! HHar•o ! a
1'aide, won prince, on me fait
tort." The effect of this appeal,
teolundcally called the "clameur de
Hai'c," is to stay proceedings un-
til the .petitioner's case has been
heard.
In modern times the ray has most
frequently been raised to interrupt
building ,preparations on land to
which the title is:dispubed---much to
the annoyance of umsuspeotieg
strangers who have settled in Elle is-
lands without being aware of this
curious tradition, Popular etymo-
logy explains "Hero" as an 'abibes-
viati"rt of "Ha! Rollo," thus malt-
ing the cry it direct appeal to the
first duke of Normandy,