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The Brussels Post, 1915-12-2, Page 3usewife @o er Selected Recipes. ;sink every week to prevent its be - Cream of Chestnut Soup. -Peel and coming stopped.' blanch one quart of large chestnuts. Ground coffee sprinkled freely Cook for one-half hourand rub amongst the fur or feathere of game through sieve. Add one quart white when packed for travelling will keep stook and a little chopped parsley. rt fresh. Blend one tablespoon flour with one at th making puddings with eggs tablespoon butter, Add to soup, stir - and the yolks and whites separately in - ring it briskly. Put through sieve and mix the whites as the last again and servo with croutons of gradient. fried bread. To turn out a pudding from the Nut Custard Pie. -Heat two eggs mold easily and 'without breaking with one-half cup sugar and pinch of plunge the mold into cold water for a salt. ' Pour two cups hot milk over moment. mixture. Stir until sugar is dissolv- Before home-made bread is put into t ed, strain, add one-half.. teaspoon ora with buttert abbrush the topsof the loavesm little more of vanilla and one-half cup and the crust will remain. finely ground English walnuts, pe- moist. cans or almonds. Pour into pie pan When proportionrtng canes add glycerin lined with pastry and bake in moder- the of one . This makes to ate oven. Nuts rise to top and form each pound of flour. This tender crust to pie. them sight. Vegetable Soup. -Boil until tender I A use for pour cabbagen water -Allow It to in enough water to cover, one-half anaeool, teen on the ground. a isd cup each diced celery and minced h rhubarb bbut fertilizer for trees and onion, and one cup each diced carrots rhubarb ,bushes. and tomatoes. Press through sieve, Several tablespoonfuls of peanut butter creamed with the shortening add one cup each green peas, diced are recommended for giving a novel potatoes and diced turnips. Add and d more water if necessary and simmer eflavor to cookies or `vegetables until tender. Season with any darkicicas eake. Good b salt and pepper to taste, and add f is of a rosy red color, two tablespoons butter and a little with cream -colored, mbe loved, firm, elastic fat. mills. i IL should be scarcelyymoist to the Cranberry Pudding. - One quart touch and should not be wet and flab- ple in color. cranberries, one quart stale bread-., byToftremoveher ecakes or reasily from the crumbs, two cups sugar, one-half cup tin, dredge the latter with flour after orange juice, grated rind of one greasing. When the tin is removed orange and two tablespoons butter. from the oven stand it on a damp Butter two -quart pudding mold and cloth for a minute, and the cake will put in alternate layers of crumbs, slip out quite easily. berries and sugar until dish is full, When washing colored goods add using layer of crumbs last. Dot with vinegar in the proportion of a table - butter, pour orange juice over and spoonful to a quart of water. It will sprinkle top with grated rind. Cover brighten blue, green, red and pink and bake thirty minutes. Uncover and goods which have faded, and prevent brown. Serve with hard or liquid the color from running. sauce. A substitute for horseradish sauce Salmon Chowder. -One can salmon, _Boil a moderate sized turnip, then three potatoes, three tablespoons mash and beat in two teaspoonfuls of butter or drippings, two slices onion, made mustard, a little lump of butter one-half teaspoon salt, one-eighth tea- and thin down with a little milk. Heat spoon pepper, three cups milk, three in a lined saucepan. Served with tablespoons flour, three crackers split. roasted meat it cannot be distinguish - Remove bones of salmon, scale and ed from real horseradish sauce. flake fine. Pare potatoes and slice Ground cereals should be cooked thin. Fry onion in fat, add flour, cools three minutes. Add two cups boiling water and potatoes. Cook un- til tender, about fifteen minutes; add seasoning, salmon and milk. Boil up once and serve garnished with minced parsley and crackers dipped in hot milk. Graham Muffins. -One and one- quarter cupfuls of Graham flour, one and then they can be saved for the cupful of flour, one cupful of sour milk, one-third of a cupful of apple syrup, three-quarters of a teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Sift the dry ingredients and mix them; add the milk to the syrup, and combine the mixtures; then add the butter. Bake the muffins for twenty- five minutes in a hot oven, in butter- ed gem pans. Boiled Apple Dumplings. -One pint flour, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half case, dip a feather in benzine and pound finely chopped suet, one-half with this rub out all the dust and fluff teaspoon soda and sour milk enough from the little holes where the axle to make stiff dough. Roll to one-half works. Wipe off all dirt and benzine, inch thickness and cut -in squares. carefully oil with a drop of pure Pare and quarter apples, place four sperm oil on the feather, all the ar- quarters in centre of each square, bore, but avoid letting oil come in sprinkle liberally with sugar, and contact with the balance spring, or gather dough around apples, pinching the clock will run irregularly. together. Put in cloth and boil for two hours. Or steam without putting into cloth. Serve with hard sauce made of one cup sugar and two table- spoons•butter beaten to cream, flavor- ed with cinnamon. This is real Eng- lish recipe. with five times as much water as meal. Rolled oats and other rolled grain should be cooked with only twice as much water. Cereals are bet- ter if cooked at least one-half hour. Oat meal should be cooked at least three-fourths of an hour or one hour. The shells of eggs should be care- fully washed before they are broken clearing of soups and jellies. Crush the egg shells, put them on a plate at the oven door until they are dry, then put in a glass jar. Before us- ing, soak in cold water for 20 min- utes. Four shells will clarify a quart of gellatin or an equal quantity of soup. To clean a cheap alarm clock -Take off the bell and the two feet, and un- screw the keys used for winding. Then take the movement out of the ANTI -TYPHOID VACCINE. How the Preparation Is Made at a French Institute. Candy. -One and one-half cupfuls A recent article in La Nature de - of sager, one-quarter of a cupful of scribes how anti -typhoid vaccine is water, three tablespoonfuls of apple prepared in France at the Institute of syrup, the white of one egg. Cook to- Val -de -Grace, where ce tore Chante- gether the water and the sugar, with- mese, Vidal, and Vincent have done out stirring it, until the mixture such remarkable work for humanity reaches a temperature of 248 deg.' m the great field of protective medi- Fahrenheit. That is known as tcine. The vaccine is polyvalent; that "hard ball stage," at which a little of one,itosay, it is a blend made, not rfaom the syrup dropped but from man different strains y p into water forms a � of Bacillus typhosus. Tho vaccine is hard hall. Add the syrup, and reheat sterilized by the momentary applica- the mixture. Pour it into the well- tion of ether, and contains no living beaten white of the egg, and beat it elements. It is' put up in small am - until the mixture will hold its shape. 1poules, or glass vials, in sets of three, Drop it by teaspoonfuls on buttered each of which contains one billion paper. dead' typhoid bacilli. At every stage Walnut Bars. - One-quarter of aiin the preparation of the vaccine, cupful of butter or two tablespoon_ aseptic methods are mort vigilantly fuls of bettor and two tablespoonfuls' enforced. The article warmly praises of lard, two tablespoonfuls of boil- I the workers: "Only those who have ing water, one-quarter of a cupful of lived at the laboratory from Septem- apple syrup, one-half of a teaspoonful her, 1914, to the early months of the of soda, one and one-half cupfuls. of present year can have any idea of the flour, one-half teaspoonful of salt, activity that prevailed there, and of one and one-half teaspoonfuls of cin- the indefatigable zeal of all, men and ninon, chopped walnut meats. Pour women, mobilized and voluntary the water over the butter, then add workers - directors of laboratories, the sugar, syrup mixed with soda, preparators, Red Cross ladies, hospl- floul•, salt, and spice, Chill the mix- tal orderlies, all working together." ture, roll it one-quarter of an inch thick, cut it into strips three and one- Pat's Position. half inches long by one and one-half inches wide, sprinkle it with the nut meats, and bake it ten minutes. Sentence was about to be pro- nounced on an Irishman for theft, "And it is upon the oath of them two Helpful Suggestions.. witnesses your honor is going to con- demn ane?" asked Pat. "Certainly," To preserve cheese -Wring a Toth said the judge, "Their testimony was out in vinegar and wrap round the annpie to convince the jury of your cheese. guilt," "Oh, mltrther," exclaimed, When greasing a pudding mold al- Pat, "To condemn me on the oath of ways grease the cover as well as the two such spalpeens who swear they mold• saw me take the goods whin I can A pail of boiling stilted water bring forth 4 hundred who will snvear should be poured down the kitchen they' didn't see me clo it," PRINCESS DRESSES SMART. Princess dresses have a clean-eut, smart, appearance, and although they Iook well on slight people, they are particularly adapted, with their long, graceful lines, to stout figures. The one shown herewith is, Ladies' Home Journal Pattern No. 9115, is illus- trated with a delightful fur set, Pat- tern No. 9149, consisting of a melon muff, cellar and hat. The dress is 9118 Fur Set 9149) novel and attractive in its diagonally cut waist fastened high at the throat and finished by a deep turn -over col- lar. The sleeves are long and tight. Pattern cuts in sizes 34 to 44 bust measure, size 36 requiring 63i, yards of 36 -inch material. Patterns, 15 cents each, can be pur- chased at your local Ladies' Home Journal dealer, or from The Home Pattern Company, 183 George Street, Toronto, Ontario. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DECEMBER 5. Lesson Y.-Uzziah's Pride and Pun- ishment, 2Chron. 26. Golden Text: Prov. 29. 23. I. The Fame of Uzziah (Verses 8-10). Verse 8. Gave tribute -See 1 Kings 4. 21; 10. 25; 2 Chron, 17. 11. Part of the tribute which the Ammonites gave Uzziah was evidently a right to pasture his cattle in the Ammonite country (see verse 10). 9. The corner gate -Probably the gate at the northwest angle of the city where the north wall approached the Valley of Hinnom (see 2 Kings 14. 13). The valley gate - The modern "Jaffa" gate which leads to the Valley of Hinnom. 10. Built Towers - Primarily for defense from marauding bands. The wilderness -To the south and southeast of Jerusalem, extending from the western shores of the Dead Sea toward Beersheba. Hewed out many cisterns -Reser- voirs cut into the natural rock and covered at the top except for a small aperture. These were for storing the rainfall. Many remains of such are encountered by the traveller in Pales- tine to -day. The lowland -The maritime plain to the west of Jerusalem between the hills of Judhea and the sea. The plain -The rich grazing land beyond the Jordan, on the plateau of Gilead, 7. II. His weakness (verses 15-21). 15. Marvellously helped -See verse 16. His heart was lifted up -His pride became strong. To burn incense - None but the priests were allowed to celebrate this rite. Hence Uzziah's transgression (verse 18). 17. Azariah the priest -The high priest (verse 20). 'With him fourscore priests-Uzziah doubtless, had a large retinue with Azariah, therefore, takes a strong following, to withstand Uzziah with force if necessary. 19, The leprosy brake forth hi his forehead-Gehazi was thus suddenly afflicted (see 2 Rings 5, 27). 20. They thrust him out quickly - His own men thrust him out, for death was the penalty (see Nunn. 18. 71 16. 31-85). And they wanted to get him away from the incense altar a8 quickly ae possible, s0 as to escape the penalty • SENSES OF TREES. Perseverance of a Poplar in, Sur- mounting Obstacles. Mr. James Rodway who is the curator of the British Guiana Museum and an eminent botanist, declares that plants have at least three of our five senses -feeling, taste and smell -and that certain tropical trees smell water from a distance and will move straight toward it. But trees not in the tropias can do as well. A resident of an old Scotch mansion, says a writer in the Scots- man, found the waste pipe from the house repeatedly choked. Lifting the slabs in the basement paving he discovered that the pipe was com- pletely encircled by poplar roots. They belonged to a tree that grew some thirty yards away on the oppo- site side of the house. Thus the roots had moved steadily toward the house and had penetrated below the foundation and across the basement until they reached their goal, the waste pipe, a hundred and fifty feet away. Then they had pierc- ed a cement joining and had worked their way in. There seems something almost human in such unerring in- stinct and perseverance in surmount- ing obstacles. MEANING OF HALF-MAST. A Sign. That the Dead Man Was Worthy of Universal Respect. Perhaps you have noticed that whenever a prominent person dies, especially if ea is connected with the Government, the flags on public build- ings are hoisted only part of the way up. This is called "half-mast" Did you ever stop to think what connec- tion onnecttion there could be between a flag that was not properly hoisted and the death of a great man? Ever since flags were used in war it has been the custom to have the flag of the super- ior or conquering nation above that of the inferior or vanquished. When an army found itself hopelessly beat- en it hauled its flag down far enough for the flag of the victors to be placed above it on the same pole, This was a token, not only of submission, but of respect. In those days, when a famous soldier died, flags were low- ered out of respect to his memory, The custom long ago passed from purely military usage to public life of all kinds, the flag flying at half-mast being a sign that the dead man was worthy of universal respect. The space left above it it for the flag of the great conqueror of all -the angel of death. Review. "You mustn't comment impolitely, You might be heard, That lady is Mrs. Ludl'ey, the great philanthro- pist and society leader!" "What if it is? I can look just as cross as she does if I try hard enough!" FINED FOR MISSING WORK. Munition Workmen Muet Pay Dam. ages to Employers, That certain Sheffield (England) munition workmen have not realized their line of duty in these times, was evidenced at the Sheffield City Police Court, when Mr. W. B. Esam and Mr. W. R. Carter had to deal with many serious e&aea of alleged sleeking on the part of employes of Sheffield firms, now engaged on woe's for the fleet and the army. B. Burdekin, solicitor for one of the companies, stated that in three months 370 men lost 15,000 hours. Allegations of periodical drinking bouts were not infrequent, while it Was proved that the men were often wont to take time off as they pleased. Dr. Hadfield (Doctor of Metal- iurgy) gave evidence in support of his firm's eases, and appealed to the bench to deal strictly with the delin- quents. Horace W. Walker was summoned for 27 4s. damages for neglect of work on eight days. The bench awarded damages amounting to 25 7s. 6d. Mr.. Burdekin stated that the damages were not the point in the summonses. The money went into the firm's war funds. Charles Smith was summoned for losing 104x,¢ hours, and the company asked for 28 4s. damages. Mr. Burde- kin stated that the defendant had periodical bouts of drinking. De- fendant said he had been suffering from gout. The bench awarded £5 and costs. William Henry Wake was summoned for £4 9s. damages for 81 lost hours, and was ordered to pay 22 2s. and costs. T. Townton, a blacksmith's +striker for neglecting his work through drink, for eight days, was ordered to pay the 21 with costs, 7s. 6d. John H. Howson and J. Green were each fined £1 for losing a day's work. George Neill *as order- ed to pay 25 damages. Charles Cha- ple was ordered to pay 24 damages for aims lost. Samuel Coldwell, a moulder, was ordered to pay 23 and costs for losing time, and Robert Jen- nings was ordered to pay 25 and costs. HAPPY YULE FOR TOMMY ATKINS CHEER FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS 1N THE TRENCHES. Many Funds Started in England Ex- pected to Reach Total of $8,000,000. Santa Claus is making ready for a dizzy whirl to the lines of the Eritieh 'soldiers at the front. His thousands of agents in Great Britain are busily at work now, accumulating the things Santa will leave for the fighters on the battlefields, writes a London cor- respondent. He starts his gigantic trip by call- ing on the soldiers in Belgium, and 'from there goes on through to France and the Balkans. He won't skip any of the men in khaki. Christmas in the trenches is to be the biggest thing Britain can make it. A score or more of organizations are hard at It getting funds with which to buy all manner of things to cheer up the British Tommy and let him know the folk at home are al - 1 ways thinking of him. Newspapers are running Christmas funds, and the public response has been hearty. Already, with the funds ' scarcely two weeks going, approxi- ; mately $150,000 has been raised; but I a tremendous lot more is needed to ac - I complish all that Great Britain wants to do for the soldiers in the field. It is calculated that approximately $8,000,000 either in money or articles contributed will be needed to round out a proper Christmas. While a fund of $8,000,000 may look formidable, it won't be so difficult to 1 get. The newspaper funds, it is esti- mated, will produce well over $2,000,- 000 of it, while private cash donations to the various organizations, together with contributions of articles that will begin to flow in within a month's time, will make up the rest. Queen Alexandra, always alert in every move in aid of her countrymen, is patroness of one organization that is devoting itself to accumulating articles of wearing apparel, such as stockings, mufflers and handkerchiefs, badly needed by the soldier in the bit- terly cold weather. This organiza- tion, of which Lady Paget is a mem- ber, has already obtained enough to fill 10 carloads of stuff for Santa to carry along with him. Other organizations working along the same lines have the support of the Duchess of Manchester, the Duch- ess of Marlborough, and many other wives of titled Englishmen. When the final accumulations of all of these aides to Santa Claus have been com- pleted it is expected that every sol- dier in the trenches will find some useful gift of wearing apparel deposi- ted in his dug -out on Christmas Day. That is not all. Every soldier at the front is to get a Christmas box with these things in it: Half a pound of tobacco, two pounds of candy, a plum pudding, 100 cigarettes, and a box of chocolates. It may be that the boxes will be even more plentifully filled. All de -1 pends on how much money is forth- coming. The Christmas box as plan- ned now costs each donor $1.25. That is the rock -bottom, wholesale price; ' to buy the same thing at retail would, cost $2.25. The wholesalers have put the figures down as their share of the Christmas fund, and all of them are giving handsome cash donations be- sides. Christmas fund matinees are now malting their appearance at the thea- tres, and a good deal of money is ob- tained in that way. The actors not only give their services gratis for , these matinees, but are sending along ; cash contributions as well. Sir Herbert Tree heads a group of actor -managers who are helping the' Christmas project. Harry Lauder is another. In sending his "bit" to the fund the Scotch comediau wrote: "If • any Britisher this Christmas deserves a good Christmas, it's our men at the front." Churches throughout the British Isles arc having sewing bees and tak- ing up collections for the various Christmas funds. Business houses, department stores, small shops -all are helping swell the flow of silver and gold to buy the lenge stack of gifts for the men fighting for the. colors. It is reported that to assist Santa in getting the many tens of thousands of Christmas boxes to the trenches the railroad and steamship lines are to be put at his disposal. Boxes will, so it is said, be started to the Bal- kans and the Dardanelles within a few weeks, so Santa will find then all there, ready to drop into the trenches. POPULATION OF IRELAND. An Increase Last Year Over the Pre- vious Year. The report of the Registrar General of Ireland for 1914 shows that Ire- land's decline in population has been arrested and also her prosperity in -1 creased if the number of marriages is a criterion. Last year shows a pope- 1 lation of 4,881,898, against 4,379,012 the previous year, with the lowest emigration rate since 1851. Marriages gained 33 per cent. over 1918. Im- provement is shown in the matter of illiteracy, which is rapidly dying out. The figures of husbands and wives who signed the registrar instead of making their mark give 94.6 for hus- band and 96.4 for wives. "As regards illegitimacy, Ireland j compares favorably with most coun- tries," says the report. There were only 8 per cent. of illegitimate births in the whole country. Ulster showing' the highest rate of any county at 4 per cent. and Connaught the lowest' at .7. The general birth rate shows a slight increase. A drop of .8 per cent. in the death rate is also noted, "old age" heading the list of causes, with tuberculosis as second. Last year's death rate was 16.3 the thousand. a /3ulgar General Fights for Russia EV. ltAOICO Dntrrr EE'ir, A Bulgarian, who is one of the most) trusted and capable officers of the, Muslim army. It is reported tl,ati be will leas! a Russian army) against His countr$nncn, Just to Encourage Him. A man on a walking tour in Ireland on a hot summer day accosted two laborers working in the road with, "How far is it to Ballyslithereen?" "Sure it's just a mile and a half, your honor," said one of the men. The pedestrian passed on, and the Hiatt who had not spoken said to his com- panion, "Sure, Pat, how could you tell him it's only a mile and a half when you know its' six miles?" "Och, well," replied Pat, "the poor gossoon looked so tired that I told him it was a mile and a half just toeneourage him." .,r FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST PROM HER BANKS AND BRAES, What Is Going On hi the Highland/I , and Lowlands of Auld ,a Scotia. Soma 600 eases of disabled soldiers , and sailors have been dealt with in Glasgow up to the present. Six members of the Glasgow Mu. seams staff, and over 200 students, ' past and present, are in the army. The Aberdeen Electricity Works have been insured against damage by aircraft and bombardment for $600,.' 000. Lord Inverclyde has presented the 89th Argyll and Sutherland High.' lenders (Dumbartonshire Territor» ' ids) with a set of bugles. Lady Tullibardine is shortly to pro. teed to Malta to give her services in nursing members of the Scottish Horse who have been wounded. Mr, John Ferguson, professor of Chemistry at Glasgow University, re- signed after an unbroken connection of sixty years with the University. The Royal Hotel, Bridge of Allan, has ceased to exist, the furnishings having been sold by public roup, and the military having taken possession. Saltcoats Town Council have agreed to proceed with a scheme for the re- clamation of a portion of land adjoin- ing the North Pans bathing pond. Coalmasters are now boring for coal at a spot between Lime Wharf i Chemical Works and Lock 16, on the bank of the Forth and Clyde Canal at Camelon. Dumfries County Council have agreed to strengthen its police force ' by the addition of thirty constables.' The new men will be stationed in the Gretna Green district. A Curtis biplane, piloted by Lieut. Hardie, who was accompanied by Captain Arkwright, fell from a height of 300 feet into a field at Montrose. Both men were instantly killed. The coal merchants in Dundee have assured the magistrates that so far as the working class people are con- cerned, no advance in price will be made during the coming winter. The carters in the employment of Messrs. Wordie & Co., contractors, Leith, to the number of 140, recently struck work, demanding the dismissal of several men who refused to join the Carters' Union. The motormen and male conductors employed by the Glasgow Tramways Department have sent a petition to the Trailways Committee requesting an advance of five shillings ($1.20) a week, to meet the rise in the cost of living. A war bonus of 72 cents to married and 48 cents to unmarried constables has been granted by the Caithness County Council, while the chief con- stable's salary has been raised from $1,000 to $1,250. An abstract of the accounts of Paisley Town Council just prepared shows that the liabilities of the burgh at the close of the financial year to- talled 77,676,020, and that the assets provided a surplus over that figure of 71,757,655. The meal mills of Messrs. James Simpson & Son,'Inverboyndie, near Banff, have been completely gutted by fire. Oats and oatmeal to the value of $1,250 were burned and the value of the building and machinery de- stroyed amounts to $2,500. DENOUNCED AT ALTAR: Englishman's Protest at a German Service in London. There was a scene in the German church in Montpelier Place, Brompton Road, London, England, one Sunday evening. While the organist was playing the voluntary, an Englisman, who, with several friends, was seated in a front pew, rose, and, addressing the pastor standing in front of the altar, said: "Wilt you conduct this service in English?" The pastor replied, "No, I will not." The Englishman --"Will you express regret for the Zeppelin raids and re- quest the congregation to rise with you as a sign of regret for those outrages'?" The pastor -- "No, I will not do that." The visitor then left his pew, and standing by the altar with his face to tho congregation said: "1, John Lindsay Johnson, an Englishman, hereby denounce the German Emperor as a blot 'on civilization and an out- rage on Christianity" Amid murmurs of dissent from the congregation, another Englishman supported Mr. Johnson's protest, and the party then left the church, a voice with a German accent shouting after them, "You ought to be in Colney Hatch." Tho service was proceeded with in German, while outside an indignation meeting was held. A crowd of nearly 300 people collected, and as the con- gregation left the crowd sang "God save the Icing." Walking Sticks for Wounded. Over 21,000 walking sticks are be- ing made for the wounded weekly in the Surrey village of Chiddingfold, England. Eigkty persons are em- ployed on the work. The sticks are mostly of bent chestnut wood. London is seven hundred and forty- six miles from Berlin by mail route,