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The Brussels Post, 1915-12-25, Page 3Recipes for Thrifty Cooks. Mayonnaise of Lamb.—Slice a cu - ember and line a dish with it. Sprinkle lightly with a little finely chopped onion, and over this pour a dressing of three parts oil and one. vinegar, seasoned with salt and pep- per. Cut some neat slices from a leg or shoulder of lamb and arrange these over the cucumber. Make a mayonnaise sauce and put a dessert- spoonful of this in eaeli slice of meat. Garnish the dish with tomatoes thin- ly sliced, and serve "with a salad of cold peas and lettuce. Potato Croquettes.—These are very delicious indeed and should be served separately as a little savory. Mince some remains of cold veal or chicken with a little chopped parsley, a tea- spoonful of finely minced onion and a little veal or other meat jelly. Pub' in a pie dish and stand in the oven for the moat .to warm through, then mash some cold potatoes, with a table- spoonful of cream, a dusting of black pepper, salt, a few sweetherbs, and an ounce of butter. Take a dessert- spoonful of the meat and make a case of potato round it, brush over with egg and fry until of a rich brown col- or. The croquettes must be served very hot. . Liver With 'Bechamel Sauce.—Cook two tablespoonfuls of bacon fat and two of flour. Add a dash of nutmeg and cayenne. Stir in one cupful of white chicken stock. Mix in one yolk of egg with one-half cupful cream, , two cupfuls of cooked liver cut in rather large dices. Add one table- spoonful of Worcestershire sauce and flavor with lemon juice or tarragon vinegar. Stir in one tablespoonful of butter. Serve with small pieces of toast round edges of the dish. Hot Creamed Cabbage.—Chop fine one small cabbage, cover with boil- ing water and put in soda the size of a pen; boil for fifteen minutes, then drain off the water. Melt a table- spoonful of butter, add a tablespoon- ful of flour, stir until smooth, add a cup of rich milk, and when it is very hot pour over the cabbage, which has been put into a vegetable dish, and serve. This may be varied by putting the cabbage into a baking dish after, it has been mixed with the cream, grating cheese over the top and let- ting it remain in the oven until the top is browned. Apples Baked With Bacon. Select apples of medium size, core and cut them in three slices each. Put a lay- er of thinly sliced bacon upon each slice. • Put them together and bake them until the apples are tender.; Serve whole, one apple to a person. The apple should be baked stem up. This combination looks attractive and makes a delicious luncheon dish, es- pecially if cornbread is served at the Tea Rolls.—One Quart of flour, one I same time. tablespoonful of lard, two tablespoon- fuls of butter, one tablespoonful of sugar, a little salt, one-third cake of compressed yeast dissolved in half a cupful of warm water, one pint of boiling . milk. All the ingredients should be stirred in with the boiling milk except the yeast, which is added when the sponge is a little cool. Knead three or four times. Half an hour before rolls are wanted roll out and cut with cake cutter.. Fold to -1 gether with piece of butter in middle,( let them rise till light, brush over with an egg and bake. Salmon a la Italienne.—Carefully remove all skin and bone from some( cold boiled salmon, and flake or cut into small neat pieces about an inch , thick. Slice an onion and fry it in about an ounce of good salt butter. When lightly browned, stir into the pan about half a pint of good stock -1 the liquor in which the fish was boil- ed, and to which niflk and seasoning have been added will answer the pur-+ pose if no stock is available—a table- spoonful of lemon juice, half a pint' of picked shrimps and a teaspoonful of mushroom esteem Simmer gently , for fifteen minutes and then add the fish. Continue to cook gently until the salmon is quite hot. Serve with ( sippets of toast. Pancakes. Sour Milk Pancakes.—Take one pint of sour milk, one and a half cup- fuls of bread crumbs, olio tablespoon- ful of melted butter, a little salt, three eggs, enough flqur for good con- sistency, half a teaspoonful of -soda, French Pancakes.—Use two, eggs, two ounces of butter, two ounces sift- ed algae, two ounces flour, one tea- Spoonful of baiting powder, half a pint of new mills Mix thoroughly and bake in buttered plates in a quick oven for twenty minutes. English Pancakes. --treasure three eggs, half a Cupful of :sugar, piece of butter the. size of an egg, two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder:; half - Potted of currants, and nutmeg. Beat better and sugar, add the other in- gredients end enough .flour to make a thin batter. Fry in lard. Good substitute for a pudding. Cornlueal Pancakes. — Take two cupfuls. of cornmeal and a teaspoon- ful of salt; pour over it't piling wa- ter to' make a better, let still d to cool, then add the yolks of three eggs, beaten, enough flour to make of the proper consistency, and one and one- half -teaspoonfuls of baking; powder.. Just before bolting add the whites. of the eggs, beaten stiff, Useful Hints.' Salt sprinkled with lemon juice will remove iron rust. Wet the spots with it and then hold over a vessel ef'hot. water. If your hands perspire while:sewing keep by you a flannel bag of powder- ed alum with which to dust the hands at intervals, After cleaning a room leave the windows and doors open, and do not lay down carpets and rugs until the boards are thoroughly dry, Figs soaked in water overnight and eaten first thing in the morning, be- fore other food, will often prove a re- lief for constipatione especially in young children Never whitewash the walls of a clothes cupboard, ov your brushing will never end. A cupboard that is already whitewashed may have a sheet pinned up on the wall to pro- tect the clothes. I have discovered that if clothes- pins are thrown into the boiler while the clothes are being rinsed the pins will not split. I used to lose almost one-third of my pins, but I seldom lose one now.—H.K. Have -your potatoes baked in a quick oven and served as soon as they are thoroughly cooked. It is impos- sible to do away with the starch, which is almost the whole potato, but cooked in this way they are muehl more easily digested. Save all pips, peelings and scraps of apples when cooking them. Well picked over and boiled this "waste" '1 yields juice which, after straining! and reboiling with 1 lb. of sugar to every pint of liquid, makes the most! delicious apple jelly. When making apple jelly from whole fruit save all the pulp and make a pudding of it by baking layer wise in a buttered pie dish with dry bread crumbs between each layer.i Sugar and spice, like powdered cinna- mon and cloves, make this pudding . specially nice. Make the following for the chil-; dren, Soak half a_poend of sago in! cold water for three hours, then boil one pound of fruit with sugar ton taste. When cooked pass the fruit through a sieve, add the sago, and re -1 turn to the saucepan. Simmer alto- gether till the sago is clear, then pour into a wetted mould. Turn out care- fully when cold. Kitchen chairs and table legs often become shabby -looking. To brighten' them up first put one pennyforth of permanganate of potash crystals into a jug of hot water, arid leave them' till they are quite dissolved. Now scrub the chairs clean, and dry them.. Stain them with the dissolved crys-: tars, and when they are dry apply a coating of ordinary varnish. FOOD PRICES IN GERMANY. Most Necessary Foodstuffs Have Risen Most in Price. The German papers are giving lib- eral space to the family budgets of soldiers' wives, tables showing the, steady rise in prices, etc. For ex- ample, Dr. Carl von Tyszka, writing : in a Berlin paper, deplores the fact that the most necessary foodstuffs of all descriptions, especially those on.' which the poor chiefly depend, have risen most in price. A family of four persons with a yearly average income of $500 to $600 must now spend $27.60 (110 marks) for monthly food sup- plies, which before the war cost only $16:75 (67 marks). Dr. von Tyszka notes further that there has been a heavy rise in the price of heating and lighting materials, and in the cost of clothing, especially of shoes. Walk- ing shoes, which' before the war cost $8 to $3.50 cannot now be purchased under $4 to $5. The writer closes with a warning• that an insufficiently nourished people cannot be vigorous and healthy. We quote these words; "The frequent statement that a limitation of meat -eating would be beneficial from 0 physiological stand- point, es we were eating too much meat before the war, applies only to the relatively small number of the well-to-do. For a few hundred thous- and ovcrnourished human beings a' limitation in the amount of bread and meat consumed might perhaps be wholesome, but the masses of the People do not eat too much .neat even in times of peace, on the contrary they eat too little. A further decline ie the use of this most valuable forst of nutriment might have permanently detrimental influence on the national vigor." Sturdy British Rector. At a British recruiting Meeting held at Loughborough, Leicestershire, Rev. It, .1. Sturdee, vices' of St. Peter's, Loughborough, said that this war was no ordinary war, because we were not fighting human beings but Germans, A member of the audience interjected the word "devils," The speaker re toted, "No, don't insult the . devil! We are fighting Germane." 9178.9o85 A SMART, SEA SOCIABLE DRESS. A casual• study of the women styles Pattern No.' 9175, an .exceedingly seen at present on the fashionable Popular waist, is a gathered model promenades reveals the fact that with the back extending over the styleshoulder to form a shallow yoke, and creations have relocated the has full-length or shorter sleeves with waist line and have altered the nether turn -back cuffs. The convertible col - proportions of the skirt. lar is fastened by a link. Cuts in During the next fewmonths'dresses sizes 32, 84, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 should be worn eliewing the waist line inches bust measure, Size 86 requires where it is normally found, and the 2 yards 86 -inch material- The skirt, skirt should he somewhat narrower No. 9085, is a ladies' three-piece than was widely in vogue a short time draped model with. panel front. Cuts ago. in sizes 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inches Neat gathered effects are being in- waist measure. Size 24 requires 4% troduced into the waists, and skirts yards 86 -inch material. generally are being made with slight These patterns and many other suggestions of drapery. practical and handsome styles may be All of these advance style features obtained from your local Ladies' Home are pleasingly embodied in the Ladies' Journal dealer, or from the Home Pat - Home Journal models No. 9176 and tern Company, 183 George Street, No. 9086, illustrated herewith. Toronto, Ontario. SOUTH AFRICAN CONTINGENT. One Private Relinquished a $25,000 -a - Year Position. In the ranks of the South African contingent, now in a training camp in Hertfordshire, England, there are more men who have relinquished large salaries to. serve the mother country at a shilling a day than in any other large command of .the size in the imperial army. One private before his enlistment, drew a salary of over $25,000 a year as manager of one of the most important firms in' the South African colony. Magis- trates, well-to-do farmers, and Min- ers, civil servants of high position, and even men who fought as officers in the campaign under Botha against German Southwest Africa, but had no commission open to them in the new contingent, are in the ranks. The South African contingent is filled with young Boers, as well as colonials whose British parents were pioneers in that world. Its motto, "Eendracht Maakt Macht"—union makes strength—is Dutch. Cold weather affected the troops at first, after their work in the burn- ing deserts of Getman Africa, but with warm clothiug they rather prefer it, as they enjoy sharper appetites. The contingent will be sent to the front as soon as acclimatized. THE PUBLIC ASTONISHED. Londouee Should Have Received the Victoria Cross Medal. Why the young navy officer who swam ashore from a British submai •- ino in the sen of Marmara and blew up the Ismid Railway bridge in spite of the Turkish guard should receive only the distinguished service order lois astonished the public, since so many. lesser heroes have received the greater honor of the Victoria Cross. But the award was made under a rule that has long obtained in the services. Even Lieutenant Holbrooke would have obtained merely the D.S.O. for taking his submarine through the aline field of the Dardanelles and sinking a Turkish warship had not the Icing himself intervened. By the unwritten law of the service, the Victoria Cross is awarded for a deed . of great gallantry performed without orders, and generally for sav- ing lives under fire, The D.S.O. is for gallantry in following orders. Yet Lieutenant Guy Huglies, in blow- ing up the Ismid Midge, acted on his own initiative from the time he left his boat until lie was pierced up again, and in popular opinion should have re- ceived the more coveted medal. It is e good deal like the case of Lieutenant Warneford in attacking and wrecking A Zeppelin, which resulted hi a V.C. 9011 CHILDREN'S :FASHION NOTES. Grown folks cannot properly lay sole claim to the deshe to dress neat- ly. • Our small dear understudies are quite as discriminate and demanding in their appearance as ourselves. Many a little heart will beat hap- pily if mother will provide it with a neat little frock like the one illus- trated herewith. This is e pattern selected from the Ladies' Home Journal, No. 9011, and consists of a sleeveless overdress with princess panel fn front and a guimpe opening in the front. Cuts in sizes 6, 8, 10 and 12 years, sine 10 requir- ing 21/2 yards 36 -inch material with 1% ,yards 36 -inch materiel for guimpe. This pattern and many other prae- dial and handsome styles may be obtained from your local Ladies' Home Journal Pattern dealer, or from the Bone. Pattern Company, 183 George Street, Toronto, Ontario: Smith's Good Luck. She—Dancing is fine for people, don't you think? He—Yes; it exhausted Smith's wife so dint she's gone into a sanitaritnn for a year. Welll Young ihlan---Why have you two. prices and two kinds of those flow- ers./ low-ers/ Florist Man—One kind we sell to fiances; the other ' to married mien. THE MEXICAN SNAIL,. Trance Imports 'them to War on Vineyard rests. No healthy, free-living creature is common or unclean 10 a naturalist's ayes, and to apply the word to a spall gliding along with its horns out and its house on its back is mere preju- dice, At the same time it has to be admitted that snails do a great deal of damage in fields and gardens, and would do much more if it were not for their enemies, such as birds and hedgehogs. In this connection some interesting observations have been made on the extraordinary appetite for snails and slugs exhibited by a Mexican snail with a shell about two inches long, which a naturalist has been trying for four years to acclimatize in France. The point is that it seems to have an extraordinary keen lilting for everything in the snail life. It was tried with salad and fruit on the one hand, and with minced meat of vari- ous kinds on the other, but it would have none of them. Snails and slugs, however, it de- voured with avidity, A watersnail occupied its attention for about ten minutes; the common garden snail, with its strong, muscular, creeping sole, took longer. In seventeen days five of these snail -eating snails— scientifically known as Glandinas— accounted for 109 snails, and one hun- gry individual was seen to eat a dozen vineyard snails in twenty-four hours. It must be noted, however, that, there were usually long intervals be- tween meals, and that one garden snail every two or three days was generally enough. In most eases the Gladuha grips its victim before the victim has time to draw its body into the shelter of the shell, but it is also able to deal with a snail that has drawn itself in, for it contrives to break down the doorway of the shell. NEW WAR DISEASE. Aeroplane Pilots Are Treated for Air Sickness. During the war several military aviators have been suffering from air sickness. This new malady is liable to attack any aeroplane 'pilot who flies for a length of time without de- scending. The aviator thus attacked is affected with a sickly nausea ac- companied by severe headache, and a violent desire to sleep. Swift de scents through the air will bring on these symptoms, which medical men say are caused by the blood circula- tion of an aviator being unable to at once adapt itself to the rapid change of atmospheric pressure caused by sudden drops in the air. Telegraphist's spasm is another malady which has afflicted many tele- graph and wireless operators in the war. The complaint is caused by the continual operation of the little han- dle used in connection with telegraph- ic apparatus. Few people realize the strain entailed by tapping for hours at a stretch with one hand the instiu- ment which sends code messages across the wire. Most letters consist of more than one dot or dash, and it has been estimated that a telegraphist makes about 30,000 movements of the fingers and wrist in the course of an hour's operating. This strain often results in the hand becoming stiff and uncontroll- able, as it does in the case of writer's cramp. Many telegraphists now learn to operate with both hands in order to avoid this complaint. A malady prevalent amongst the drivers of the military motor cars and transport wagons is chauffeur's frac- ture. When swinging the starting handle of powerful motor cars, the driver often has his right hand forced backwards by the engine back -firing. Sometimes the wrist is broken in this way, but more often the muscles of the wrist are strained or the liga- ments torn. As a result the hand be- comes almost useless for any purpose demanding strain, and rest is abso- lutely necessary. THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. I was never less alone than when with myself.—Gibbon. Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.—Madison. Experience is unquestionably the surest standard by which to test everything.—Washington. It is not from nature, but from edu- cation and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.—Fielding. Gain which is made at the expense of reputation should rather be set down as loss. -Latin Proverb. I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.—George Eliot. Religion is the tie that connects man. with his Creator, and holds him to His Throne.—Daniel Webster. Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to en- counter the one must not expect to obtain the other,—Metastesio. The knack of making good use of moderate abilities secures the esteem of men, •aid often raises to higher fame' than real merit.—La Rochefou- cauld. We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it, but aline of as is troubled about the paralysis of a soul; --Epic lotus. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DECEMBER 20. Lesson XIII, — Jehovah's Gracious' Promises to Israel, Review. Read Hosea 14. Golden Text; Psa. 108. 8. There are sone promises that were thousands of years ago that have been faithfully kept, and some that are still waiting to be fulfilled that will be just as faithfully kept, The Oite who has made and kept these prom- ises never has failed and never will fail to keep 1110 word with his people. God has made these graciaus prom- ises. He made, them to his people in the days long ago, sending prophets, priests, and kings to them to deliver messages and to help him in fulfilling the promises. Elijah, Elisha, Jehoi- oda, Joash, Daniel, Jonah, Amos, and Hosea were among the number through whom God sent and fulfilled some of his promises. We have stud- ied about each of these in the quarter (just closing. Through Elijah, the faithful, fear- less prophet God rebuked a wicked king, brought righteousness to pass, and chose a new helper who was to take up the work which Elijah laid down. Through Elisha God fed the hungry, helped the weak, healed the sick, and delivered a city from the enemy. Through Jehoiada he preserved the life of a little boy who was one day to become a good and great king. Through Joash the king he destroy- ed idols, rebuilt the temple, and brought the people back to the wor- ship of the true Jehovah. Through Daniel he taught the les- sons of self-control and fulfilled the promises of reward to those who are constant and steadfast. Through Jonah, the foreign mis- sionary, he warned and caused the great city of Nineveh to repent and be delivered from an awful destruction. Through Antos, the home mission- ary, he reminded the people who were living ir. luxury at the expense of their helpless fellow creatures that such deeds would bring their own pun- ishment, and he called them to repent and remember his gracious promise Ito forgive those who turn to him re- penting of their sins. Through Hosea be sent a message of deep love, telling how he longed to have the people turn to him as a child turns to his father, promising them that he would forgive their sins and restore them to a place in his love. Through Jesus Christ, the King of Love, he fulfilled the promise that he had made of the coming One who should come to redeem the people from their sins and to bring peace m1 earth and good will to men. Every promise which God has made he has faithfully kept in the past and is faithfully keeping to -day. He has used. people of all types to help him in fulfilling these promises. INSECT LIFE. Their Voracity Is as Astounding as Their Power of Reproduction. Few persons, writes Mr. James Buckland, realize how enormous is the number of insect species or how amazing is their power of multiplica- tion. The number of insect species is greater by far than that of the species of all other living creatures combined. Although more than 300,- 000 have been described, probably twice that number remain to be exam- ined. Virtually all living animals, as well as most plants, supply food for these incomputable hordes. The fe- cundity of certain insect forms is as- tonishing. Riley once computed that the progeny of the hop aphis, which sees thirteen generations born to it in a single year, would, if unchecked to the end of the twelfth generation, multiply to the inconceivable number of ten sextillions of individuals. Sup- plementing that calculation, Forbush ,says that, if this brood were mar- shalled in line, ten to the inch, it would extend to a point so sunk in the profundity of space that light from the head of the procession, tra- velling at the rate of 184,000 miles a second, would take 2,500 years to reach the earth. A Canadian ento- mologist declares that in one season the descendants of a pair of potato bugs would, if unchecked, number 60,000,000. The daily ration in leaves of a caterpillar is equal to twice its own weight, If a horse were to eat as much, he 'would require a ton of hay every twenty-four hours. For- bush says that a certain flesh -eating larva will consume M twenty-four hours 200 times its original weight; a human child, to do as well, would. have to eat, in the first clay of its life, 1,500 pounds of beef. Trouvelot, who made a special study of the subject, • WAR IS BETAIHN TWO IDEALS OF LI EXPATRIATED BRITON SEES 100• YEAR CONFLICT. Naturalized German, Son of Eng- lish Admiral, Declares Subju- gation is Aim. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who, although the sen of an English admiral, has become a German, has contributed to one of the Hamburg' newspapers a statement of his views en the present and future relations be- tween England and Germany., He is convinced that the war be- tween the two countries will last for at least s a hundred years. He ` does not mean, he explains, that the pre sent fighting will continue for so long a time, but rather that an internation- al struggle has commenced of which I the world -war is but a phase. "The German word 'krieg,'" ob- serves Mr. Chamberlain, "means much more than the English word 'war' or the French 'guerre'; it really dignifies an obstinate persistence in the endeavor to accomplish some pur- pose. In this sense the war between England and Germany was long fear- ed, and every effort was made to avert it, but in the end it was wanton- ly brought about. Now we must steel ourselves, for the contest will be con- ducted as bitterly after peace has been concluded as it is being conduct- ed now." affirms that the food token by a single silkworm in fifty-six days equals 80,- 000 times its original weight at hatch- ing. What destruction this one in- sect would cause if even a one-hun- dredth part of its eggs ever hatched! The facts show how great is the value to man of the insect -eating birds. There are five quarts of blood in the human body. One half of this can be lost before death is inevitable, Since the accession of Queen Vic- toria, there have been. thirteen Liberal and five Conservative Govei'iimeets. Loops Into Future. The Germans will easily mend their relations with Italy and Russia, de- clares Chamberlain. France is likely to be a disturbing element, hut he is convinced that force and sagacity will ultimately master that difficulty. "With England, however, the shat- ter is different," he says. "For the struggle between England and Ger- many is no mere fight for physical ascendancy. Each nation wishes to secure the ascendancy for its world - philosophy. The essential aim of the English Weltanschauung is the de- velopment of the will; the German is devoted to artistically directed know- ledge and action. "The English philosophy produces energetic, able, but ignorant, undisci- plined individuals, whereas, the Ger- man method produces great mental power in the individual and the obe- dient submission of all to one great purpose. Thus, the average English- man is not nearly so well educated as the German, and is less given to ;reflection." Subjugation as Outcome. A situation has now arisen, writer contends, which will continu mail one nation subjugates the ether, for the two cannot possibly live on -ha sante footing near and with one an- other. Diplomatic agreements .u.d courts of arbitration cannot in any way affect such a situation for th.3 is a war between two ideals of and it must be fought ont, in war with firearms and in peace with intel- lectual weapons. "There is no need for hatred in `itis war," says Chamberlain, "and !he German may properly perceive Ind acknowledge all the excellent things accomplished by the English method of life and thought. "But it is impossible by any argu- ment or proof to convince the Eng. lishman that he and his race are not predestined to rule tho earth. 11(1 only way to teach the Englishman that he is wrong is to compel him qty force to recognize it. Once Germany holds the power in its hand, it can permit the English and others to fol- low tho bent of their own :minds in their own sphere. But in the :mean- time Germany must be strong and inflexible." "MURPHY'S MULES" WORK. Story of Australian Soldier's Deeds at the Dardanelles. There is many an Australian sol- dier at the front to -day who blesses "Murphy's mules." Murphy is, or was, a hero of Anzac who never got mentioned in despatches, but he fre- quently figures in letters sent honkie by the Australians. His real name was Simpson, but for some unaccount- able reason he got the nick -name of "Murphy." So many were the wounded who re- quired to be taken to safety that Mur- phy commandeered a pair of mules, and officers connived at the "theft" when they learned the noble work he was doing. He used to leave the animals just under the brow of "Braund's Hill" sad clash forward himself into the firing line to pick up the wounded, "Murphy's voice near them sounded like n voice from Heaven," the sol - •9 99 ..]el. .. 1... Day after day he climbed the hill, smiling and cheery. But one day "Murphy's mules" did not come. The wotinded cried out to the overworked stretcher bearers"For God's sake send Murphy's mtiles." The mules were found contentedly. grazing in Shrapnel Valley, but Mur- phy had done his last climb. "Where is Murphy?" cried one of rho first battalion. "Murphy is at heaven's gate," re- plied a sergeant, "helping floe. sol- dives through."