The Brussels Post, 1915-11-25, Page 3�usewrfes
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Selected Recipes, (dissolve a tablespoonful of. sugar in
A'oi, oatmeal padding pour a quart lead.
aliittle vinegar and add to the .blaelt-
of boiling milk over a pint of the best If curtains aro allowed to dry thor-
nne oatmeal, and let -lit twooeggen all oughly before being starched it will
night, Next' day' beat eggs and- be found that they will last- clean
add a Pinch of salt. Butter. a basin
that will just hod the ingredients.. tor.
After washing leather gloves rinse
Cover tight with a floured cloth, and them in cold water thensoa again.
boil for nn herr and'' hal"' 1'/at; It This will prevent them from drying
with cold butter and salt, When cold stiffly.
slice and toast it. To clean a burnt pan dip a hard
For baked apples 'take the number crust of bread in ltiteben salt and rub
required, and choose them, i- possible,' the burnt portion, then wash in hot
of "equal size, Wipe them well with a Soda and water.
damp cloth, and remove the core, with When using salt to remove stains.
,a• fork" or apple corer.' Place them in from silverware, the sell should be
a baking tin, sprinkle them first with melted and. a strongsolution applied,
a little water and then with grana- otherwiec you run the risk of scratchu
lated sugar, and bake in a moderate Mg • the silver,
oven until soft, The time will depend '
The dark stain on the inside of
upon the kind of apple used, and will aluminum vessels can be removed by
vary, from 20 minutes to 1 hour. boiling a solution of water and borax
When the apples are ready lift them and letting it stand for some time in
en to a clean dish and sift.a little su the vessel.
gar over, When making aprons it may be an
Those who are fond of carrots will advantage to put the pocketin the
find this recipe excellent: -Use three centre of the apron instead of at the
good-sized carrots for four persons. side, where it is found to be contin-
Scrape and pare them and cut into ually catching on the door bandies
small pieces, • Put a teaspoonful of 'and tearing.
rendered beef suet in a pot, add a ' To test silk, fray out the threads
little onion juice, put in, carrots, let and break them. If they snap easily
them cook for a few minutes, but not
brown, pour in boiling water .to cover, it is not good. The warp thread run-
seasori with a half teaspoonful of salt, ning lengthwise should be of equal
a dash of pepper, and one teaspoonful strength with the wool thread run -
of sugar. Let the carrots boil rather ning crosswise.
elowly foe an hour. If the water boils Remnants of meat of different
kinds can be ground fine and mixed
low : add a little boiling water to re-
plenish. with rice, a raw egg seasoned and
Cabbage Soup. -Put two cups shred- made into cakes and fried brown on
ded cabbage on to cook in enough both sides. They are very good for
a lunch dish.
water to cover. Let simmer slowly .
A. good dressing for sliced toma-
about three-quarters of an hour until .
tender. When cabbage has cooked toes is made with a hard-boiled egg,
one-half hour season with salt and chopped fine and mixed with mustard,
some butter and cream. Season to
pepper and pour into hot tureen in
which there is one teaspoon butter. taste and place on each slice of tos
mato.
If desired, strain.- Serve with oyster
crackers. Tastes much like oyster Food articles that ,are damp should
stew. I never be left in ordinary paper. Pa -
Cranberry -Raisin Pie. -Mix to- per is made of wood pulp, rags, glue,
gether one .cup sugar, two Level table- lime, and 'similar substances, inter-
and chemicals.
spoons cornstarch and one saltspoon mixed with acids- `
salt. Add one cup boiling water, stir When damp it should not be allowed
and cook for five minutes, then add to come into contact with things that
one and one-half cups chopped cran- are to be eaten.
berries and one-half cup seeded and In knitting it will be found 'much
easier when casting on stitches, if
chopped raisins, and let simmer for,
using very large needles, to .intro -
fifteen minutes, being careful not to
burn. Turn'into baked crust and duce an ordinary steel needle in place
cover with meringue. If desired, this of the large one held in the right
knit -
may be baked in two crusts, in which hand. • Use the steel needle for ting the stitchand pass it
case use one-half cup of cold water inover y
large needle. This is to be done only
when casting on stitches.
The simplest way of dealing with
moths is to keep them out of the
house altogether, . and this can be
done at the expense of a few pints of
turpentine. Sprinkle the rooms with
mixing, instead of one cup of boiling
water, and do not cook before putting
between crusts.
Fricasseed Chicken. -Joint 'chicken,
wipe off with clean, wet cloth, pour
cold _water over it, drain and lay it
still wet in pot in layers, each layer
covered lightly with minced salt pork. this once a week, or thereabouts,
when the moths begin to hatch out;
Set in another vessel of hot water;
cover close] bringto boilingand theygwill alla die or leave the
y, point, building. Repeat it if they appear
' then simmer slowly for some hours, again. Sprinkle a little in drawers
until chicken is cooked. Remove lid where woollen clothes are, and the
moths will not come near them.
from pot, season chicken with salt
and white pepper, transfer meat to
hot platterand keep hot while adding
flour and butter, rubbed together, to.
liquor in pot, where fowl was cooked.
Stir until thick and smooth. To make - Done Some Good Work.
gravy richer, pour -it upon beaten egg, '
return to pot long enough to make The hunting of "German trawlers by
very hot and pour over chicken in the British fleet in the North Sea, es -
platter. • ' pecially on the Dogger Bank, has dri-
Cabbage,Loaf.-Remove crust and ven the German fishing fleet from the
scoop out inside of. oblong loaf of North Sea. As a result the price of
bread, leaving wall one-half inch fish in Germany and Sweden is going
thick, then saute case in butter. Shred l uP.
small, firm, well -bleached cabbage, I The London Morning Post's Petro
soak in cold water thirty minutes, grad correspondent says that the ofil-
drain and cook in uncovered vessel cial organ of the Government, the
containing boiling salted water to Messenger, devotes a long, article to
cover. Add small pinch of soda. Cook the extremely useful work of British
twenty-five minutes, drain, season submarines in the Baltic "while the
with half saltspoon pepper, one table- Germans during the last ten months
spoon melted butter and one-half cup have been boasting of isolating Eng -
white sauce. -Fill bread box case' with land by submarine warfare, which
alternate layers of cabbage, bread -
crumbs and grated cheese moistened
with ,cream, and finieh, with thick.
sprinkling of grated cheese. Set in
moderate oven twenty minutes and
serve garnished with parsley.
Baked. Veal .and :.Onions. -Peel six
Bermuda onions, coverwith boiling
water and cook one-half hour. Drain,
rinse in cold water and drain' again.
GERMANS HARD HIT.
British Fleet and Submarines Have
has been carried on regardless of all
considerations of law or humanity,
but ;which has =not ,succeeded in ,.pro
diming any effect on British" shipping.
"Biitish boats act in strict accor-
danee with international law and
usages of humanity," says the Mes-
senger. They do not sink passenger
boats without warning and kill.hun-
dreds of helpless women and children
Remove centres from onions so as to and innocent civilians, as the Germans
leave regularly. shaped cases, Chop did in the case of the Lusitahia."
The article asserts that British
activity has crippled German's war
supplies and that all traffic between
Germany and the Swedish and Danish
coasts is reported stopped.
elle slice bacon and one pound veal
steak, add • one-half teaspoon thyme,
yolk of egg, two tablespoons fine
bread crumbs, one-half teaspoon
salt,. same of paprika and two table-
spoons cream or milk. Mix together
and 711 centres of onions, Set, onions
in casserole or baking dish, add one-
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half cup broth or boiling water con- With a view to delaying, as far es
possible, the inevitable day when -she
taming beef extract, and let cook must bow to the Will of Euroiie, Ger-
about one and one-half hours in mod. many has decided to put her boys of
erste oven. Baste a' few times with sixteen ' to nineteen years . of age
liquor in pan, adding more if needed, through a course of military training,
When almost done add one table- Great Britain, too, when driven al -
spoon flour mixed with water to pour, most to desperation by Napoleon,
and 'cook fifteen minutes longer. Stir sanctioned the enlistment of boys to
in two tablespoons of butter and a the extent of ten per cent of the
little kitchen bouquet if you have it strength of the >, regiments. Many
and serve from, casserole. and various were the drastic -steps.
taken to resist the mighty forces of
Napoleon, One, historian tells us that
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Sweet oil removes finger marks ens emptied more than once to sup -
from varnished furniture, ply the want of soldiers. Each man
A. good beefsteak, however well it who enlisted in the army in 1807
is cooked, will not be at its best unless cost „ -the country nearly 5200 in
served directly when cooked. bounty and levy money. These men
To give a' brilliant polish to a Stove signed for unlimited service.
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enormous geographical difficulties which confront the armies can be grasped easily by a glance at this map. After the landing of
the Allied expeditionary forges at Saloniki the detachments were concentrated on a• plateau outside the city. From there they
would be transferred to the Serbian border by the Saloniki-Uskub railway (seen on the left of the inap). This line has an extremely
important strategic value, Another railway route shown -the through route to Constantinople -will of course prove of the utmost
value to the Austro -Germans if they can gain possession of it, The map also shows the Bulgarian salient (i.e., bulge) into Serbia
facing Demir Kapu.
CZAR'S LIFE AT THE FRONT.
How the Russian Ruler Conducts the
Campaign.
The following authorized descrip-
tion df the Czar's life at the front has
reached Petrograd:
"Headquarters has been established
in a small two-storey house in a
White Russia city, the name of which
is necessarily omitted. Emperor
Nicholas occupies two rooms on the
second floor -one as a bedroom and
the other as an office. On the same
floor are Minister ,of the Court, Gen-
eral Baron Fredericks, and Palace
Commandant, General Voekoff, each
of whom occupies a single room. On
the first floor are the Czar's physician
and various persons of his suite. The
number of servants has been cut to
the minimum.
"Near the house in Government
buildings and hotels live Grand Dukes
Cyril and Boris, and Dmitri Pavlo-
vitch and others of the temporary
court.
"After luncheon, the Emperor chats
with his guests. Two o'clock finds
the Emperor and General Alexieff
again occupied with reports in , the
Emperor's private office. In mid-
afternoon the Emperor motors for an
hour or two and then returns to work
until dinner is served at 7.30 o'clock.
"At 9 o'clock in the morning; the
Czar, attired in a field uniform, walks
to the offices of the General Staff,
accompanied by one of his officers.
With General Alexieff, chief of staff,
the Emperor reads the reports and
issues orders until 1 p.m. He informs
himself concerning the conditions on
all parts of the immense front, exam-
ines maps and discusses events. To
the luncheon in the Emperor's quar-
ters are invited the high military offi-
cers and the foreign military observ-
ers, altogether a dozen persons.
"At 9 o'clock in the evening, after
brief conversations with his guests,
the Emperor returns to his office and
works far into the night, General
Alexieff frequently going there for a
conference. The General Staff works
night and day."
INTENSIVE WHEAT GROWING.
Surprising Results Can Be Obtained
By the Method.
Seven years ago, says Pearson''
Weekly, a Russian farmer discovered
a, method of increasing the yield of
wheat in so startling a manner that
no' one believed he was telling the
truth. The Russian declared that it
was possible to get seventy pounds of
grain from one seed, and to make an
aero carry forty-five tons.
That does sound like a miracle, and
we do not vouch for it; but here is the
method, and, if any farmer has the
patience to try it, he will certainly be
surprised at the result.
Each grain is planted separately in
a sunken bed about fifteen inches deep
and three and a half feet in width-
feet, remember, not inches.
As soon as the grain sprouts, the
'little blade is covered with a thin lay
et of earth about an inch and a half
in depth, The result is that you get
three stalks instead of one. At the
end of three weeks the hoe comes firth
use again, and the three stalks being
covered with earth, turn into nine
stalks. This process onbeing re-
peated a third time results in twenty-
seven stalks, and the Russian in ques-
tion repeated it ten times in all, so
that at last etch grain produced 59,-
049 stalks.. If the seed is first eown
in the ordinary fashion, and then
transplanted, to the pit before men
tioned, you get art even' stronger
growth, so that, after only eight cov-
erlegs more than 105,000 stalks have
been produced from. a single grain..
HE KNEW THEIR WEAKNESS.
How Accidents Were Stopped in the
Streets of Paris.
During the reign of Louis XV. of
France, the light chaise came into
fashion, and great ladies of Paris
were accustomed to drive in them
about the city. But beautiful hands
are not always strong ones; accidents
began to occur more and more fre-
quently in the streets. Consequently
the ]ting besought the minister of po-
lice to do something, since the lives
of pedestrians were constantly in dan-
ger.
"I will do whatever is in ,my pow-
er," replied the police minister. "Your
Majesty desires that these accidents
cease 'entirely?"
The king replied, "Certainly."
The next day there appeared a roy-
al ordinance that ordered that, in the
future, ladies' under thirty years of
ago should not drive chaises through
the streets of Paris. That seems a
mild restriction; but it is. said that
scarcely a woman from that time on
drove her own chaise. The police
minister knew that few women would
care to advertise the fact that they
were over thirty, and that the rest
would probably be too old to drive,
anyway.
Object: Undoubtedly Matrimony.
The woman of the house reached
the conclusion that the attachment
of the policeman for her cook must
be investigated, lest it prove disas-
trous to domestic discipline.
"Do you think he means business,
Bridget?" she asked.
"I think he does, mum," said
Bridget. "He's begun to complain
about my cookin', mum."
The bluejacket's collar the three
rows of tape round which are to com-
memorate Nelson's victories at Copen-
hagen, the Nile, and Trafalgar is a
survival from the days when our sea-
men wore pigtails. Then it protect-
ed the "jumper" from grease.
DRAPERY TUNICS IN VOGUE.
Drapery and handkerchief tunics.
are enjoying a vogue seldom conceded
to any one style. But, coupled with
this, they are exceptionally easy to
make, and aro, therefore, a particu-
larly desirable costume for the home
dressmaker. The present style in
separate skirts makes them adaptable
to woar with separate waists. These
are Ladies' home. Journal Patterns,
the waist, No. 9131, being cut sur-
plice style for ladies and misses in
sizes 34 to 42 inches, bust measure,
and the skirt, No. 9085, cutting in
sizes 24 to 82 waist measure. Sizes
36 to 24 require 6d yards of 36 -inch
material.
Patterns, 15 cents each, can be pur-
chased et your local Ladies' Heine
Journal dealer, or from the Home
Pattern Company, 183 George Street,
Toronto, Ontario.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
NOVEMBER 28.
Lesson IX. -Amos the Fearless Pro-
phet, Amos 5. 1-15. Golden
Text: Jer. 23. 28.
I. The Impending Fall (Verses 1-3).
Verse 1. A lamentation -Hebrew,
"Kinah," which means a "dirge." A
composition carefully prepared, in
poetic form, and usually sung by wo-
men as professional mourners at a
funeral. See Jer. 9. 17.
2. The Kinah is represented by two
parallel members, the second member
of which re-echoes the first, but with
a plaintive, melancholy cadence. Verse
2 is a good example of this form of
poetry. i
SEA Bow MessagesArerre SentFrotn
to Sitil►l
ip,
Means of communication between'
one ship and another, or between ei!
ship and the shore, of however crude!
a nature, are known to have been in!
existence front the very earliest days!
of navigation.
In many parts of the world watel
towers were utilized by night, and the
method employed is to this very day
practised in uncivilized countries,
The strength and utility added to
our Navy by wireless telegraphy can
hardly be imagined, At the same
time, it bas its limitations.
In clear weather wireless tole+
graphy Is sufficient, but in thick
weather, although it can, be used for
summoning help, it will not give the
exact position of the boat in danger;
and the rescuing ship may be within
a few miles of the wreck, but unable
to locate her for many hours.
Another method of communication
is the use of fog -horns, . steam -
whistles and sirens, but these are not
always reliable, for the atmosphere
performs some curious tricks with
sound.
A noise made under water, how-
ever, is an extremely reliable guide,
and can be heard at a greater dis-
tance than the same sound through
air. The best way to recover a watch
which has dropped into the water is
for the swimmer to .bo guided by the
sound of the ticking.
This is a scientific fact, the ex-
planation of which would entail a
long, highly technical treatise, which
would not enlighten or entertain the
average reader. But it is a fact
which makes out a strong case for
signalling by bells under the sea
when safety is being considered.
The instalation for receiving bell
sound consists of ttvo cast-iron water
tanks fixed against the skin of the
ship on each side, as far below the
water -line as possible. Hanging with-
in the tanks are telephone transmit-
ters of special construction.
The bell sound passes through the
skin of the ship and is communicated
through the water in the tanks, and
thence to the receivers. The sound
is then conveyed by telephone wires
up to the bridge or chart -house so as
to be easily accessible to the officer
of the watch.
There are several means of des-
patching signals under water. A
lightship, when her light is of no
use, can perform just the same duties
by means of her own bell. Where a
lightship or a lighthouse is not
practicable, a bell -buoy can be
anchored at a desired spot, and con-
trolled from the shore, or from a
lighthouse, by means of an electric
submarine cable.
Submarine signalling isas yet ro-
ts infancy, but there can be little
doubt that, sooner or later, it will be
almost universal. At present it has
to combat certain arguments used
against it.
The chief of these is that in the
hope of picking up a submarine bell
a captain will enter dangerous waters
when, otherwise, he would take no
chances and give the place a wide
berth. This is based on an entire
misconception, of the purpose of
coast -warning signals, which are
simply aids to navigation and to
enable the captain to verify his
position when close to shore; If, in
order to do this, it is necessary to
pick up a signal, he should lie to -
net go hunting for it.
4
SOLDIERS SING AND PRAY.
Religious Devotion Shown in Italian
Armies.
The great extent to which warfare
proves an incentive to religious devo-
tion has been noted in correspondence
from other belligerent countries, and
Italy furnishes considerably more tes-
timony to the same effect. Indeed,
with but little exaggeration; it may
be said that the Italian army divides
its spare moments between singing
and praying. It is believed in Italy
that King Victor's troops are the gay-
est and most light-hearted in all the
war, for they always go into battle
singing. Their first thought on re-
turning from a struggle, however, is
a Mass for the repose of the souls of
comrades whom they had to leave be-
hind on the field, The most popular
song in the campsafter the devout
i
services aro over, s "Addo Mia Bel-
la" (Good -by, My Love).
The religious enthusiasm in the
army is also reflected in the fact that
so many of the Roman Catholic clergy
have rallied around the flag. The
military authorities have expressed
themselves as greatly pleased over
this, for some of them had entertained
doubt that the clergymen were
staunch patriots, but they have
proved that they are ready to give
their lives as willingly for their coun-
try as any other class of citizens,
German Censor Busy, Too.
The censer is not going to expose
Getman weaknesses and susceptibili-
ties at this juncture. He won't even
let the exact percentage of German
deaths from typhus be known, Thus,
the Berlin letter to the Jennie' of
the American Medical Association,
reads: -"It has been determined that
the Russians display a much greater
resistance to typhus than the `Ger.
mans. Whereas the mortality
among the Russianis only
2%,, the mortality among the German
doctors and. nurses is about
(This percentage is deleted from tate
original letters by the comet)"
The virgin of Israel is fallen:
She shall no more rise;
She is cast down upon her land:
There is none to raise her up.
See the book of Lamentation (for
example, chapter 1) for a repeated
use of the Kinah.
The virgin of Israel - The nation
is personified as a maiden, but one no
longer blithesome and gay, going her
happy way erect and vigorous, but
cast down and mournful. (Compare
Isa. 50 1f.) The idea of anation as a
maiden or mother is here used for
the first time. Afterward the personi-
fication is frequent.
IL The Fate of Israel Deserved
(Verses 4-11).
4. Seek ye me, and ye shall live -
The Hebrew has a more forcible ex••
pression: "Seek ye me and live." (See
Gen. 42. 18). To. seek God means to
consult hint through a prophet or
oracle (Gen. 25. 22; Exod. 18. 15; 1
Sam. 9. 9; etc.). It also means to re-
gard his revealed will and to obey
him (Isa. 9. 13; Jer. 10. 21; Psa. 9.
10; 24. 6; etc.). It was in this latter
sense that God wanted Israel to seek
him, not as in verse 5.
7. Justice to wormwood - Israel's
crying evil was civil injustice and the
oppression of t'he poor. The Hebrew
word for wormwood has been turned
by the Greek and Latin into absinthe,
which, let us hope, is no more to be a
synonym for curse to the strong
drinker of France.
8. Pleiades -"The seven stars," as
used in Old English. Shakespeare,.
Henry IV., L, 1, 2, 6; see also Job 9.
9; 88, 81.
Orion -See Job 9. 9; 88. 31; and in
the plural, Isa. 13. 10.
Pleiades and Orion, in Hebrew,
mean "the group" and "the giant."
III. The Warning Repeated
(Verses 4-11).
12. For I know - Jehovah is not
ignorant of their transgressions, as
they perhaps suppose he is (see Psa.
78. 11; Job 22, 18), This knowledge
is the ground of the sentence pro-
nounced in verse 11.
Take a bribe - That is, a ransom
for a life (Exod. 21, 30; Num. 35.
31).
"Needy in the gate -Compare Isa.
10. 2; 29. 21; Mal, 8. 5. The broad,
open space near the gates of a city
were used as places for public deli-
beration and for the administration of
justice (see Deut 16. 18; 21, 19; Josh.
20. 4; Judg. 9. 35).
18. An evil time -When men may
well fear. .But not those Who are just,
and righteous.
No mar is so ignorant that he can't
teach you something,