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The Brussels Post, 1916-11-9, Page 3Selected Recipes. and then bake for one hour is a mod- erate oven. Nut Roast. -Two cups bread crumbs, 1 cup pecans, 1 cup filberts, 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, 1 table- spoonful chopped green peppers, 1 apple chopped, 1 onion chopped, 1 cup of milk, t/a cup chopped celery, 1 egg, salt and pepper, 2 tablespoonfuls but- ter. Put the bread, nuts, parsley and pepper through the mincer together; grind up the apple and stir it into the rest of the ingredients. Beab the egg, add the milk and seasoning and stir into the dry ingredients. Melt the butter in a frying pan and pour half into the mixture; fry the chopped onions in the remainder and pour on top of the loaf, which should be put into a well -greased tin and baked for forty-five minutes in a slow oven, basting occasionally with butter and boiling water, Nut Wafers. -Six tablespoonfuls of flour, one cup of chopped nuts, one Beat the eggs to a froth, then add the flour and sugar gradually, beating well between each admixture. Chop the nuts, which may be either mixed or of some one particular kind, 'and mix in. Lastly add the vanilla; about a teaspoonful is the usual amount, but it is better to use the very best make, in which case one-half spoonful is am- ple. Pour the mixture into a large pan, so that it is spread out very thin- ly, and bake for ben minutes in a hot oven. When it is cooked cut at once into rounds with a sharp cutter, for the cookies get hard and brittle very quickly and would snap if you tried to stamp them out. Nutmeg Sauce. -Mix together a tableapoon of cornstarch, half teaspoon of salt and half cup of sugar. Add slowly, stirring constantly, one cup of boiling water. Boil rapidly for five minutes, then add half fable spoon of butter and half teaspoonful of grated nutmeg. Serve at once. Gingerbread. -Half cupful white or brown sugar, one tablespoonful butter or lard, 1 cupful molasses, one cupful sour milk, one level teaspoonful soda in milk, two level teaspoonfuls cinna- mon, one tablespoonful ginger, one- half teaspoonful of cloves, one and one-half to two cupfuls of floor. By adding one cupful raisins it will make a good fruit cake. Apples and Sausages. -Fry the sau- sages lightly in butter for a fewmin- ubes, then remove and keep hot while cooking -the apples, which should have been pared, cored and cut into neat rounds about a quarter of an inch thick. Put them to fry in the liquor of the sausages and a little additional butter and keep simmering gently un- til quite tender. Pub them piled up in the center of a very hot dish and arrange the sausages neatly round. Servo immediately. Making Fruit Butter. -When mak- ing fruit butter, both time and fuel can be a saved if this method is follow- ed; First stew the fruit, then take from the fire, strain through a coland- er and put the juice into the kettle in which the butter is to be made. Let it boil until it is thick and beginning to jelly, then add the fruit which has been rubbed through the colander and, in a very short time, it will be made into the smoothest butter imaginable. In this way you will have avoided the long, tiresome stirring and the danger of burning, Apple Pudding. -Put two layers of quartered apples in a pudding dish, sprinkle thickly with granulated sug- ar, add a few raisins and a teaspoon of butter; pour over this a batter made of a small teacup of sugar, three- fourths of a cup of milk, one-fourth of a cup of butter, two teaspoons baking powder, flour enough to form a batter as thick as for layer cake, and a little salt. Steam or bake until the apples are cooked. Serve hot, with cream and sugar. Small Cakes. -A cupful of butter or three-quarters of a cupful of short- ening, two cupfuls of powdered sugar, a cupful of milk, whites of six eggs, a tablespoonful of lemon juice, two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder, and four cupfuls of flour. Cream the butter and the sugar together, add milk, mix well, add lemon juice and mix thor- oughly. Beat well. Add alternate- ly the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff, and the flour sifted with the baking powder. Bake in jelly cake tins. When cold, cut in tiny squares or rounds, and ice all over with pink ic- ing, and top off with half a blancher almond. Chicken Left -Overs. -An interesting way to utilize left -over chicken is as follows: One cup cold cooked chicken cutin strips, three cold boiled potatoes cut in one -third -inch slices, one truf- fle cut in strips, three tablespoons butter, three tablespoons flour, one and one-half cup scalded milk, salt and pepper. Make a sauce of butter, flour and milk; add chicken, potatoes and truffle, and as soon as heated add sea- soning. Another delicious dish can be made by taking equal parts of cold chicken, boiled rice or macaroni and tomato sauce; put in layers in shal- low baking dish and sprinkle liber- ally with buttered breadcrumbs. Brown in oven. Stuffing for Baked Fish. -A fish weighing from three to six pounds is the best to stuff. Wash the fish, cut- ting off the head and side fins. Fill with a stuffing spade of one cup of fine breadcrumbs, one teaspoon chop- ped onion, scalded, one-quarter tea- spoon salt, one-quarter teaspoon pep- per, one teaspoon lemon juice, one- quarter cup melted butter, milk or water to moisten. Fill the fish with tate stuffing, sew together and cut gashes two inches apart in the sides. Put bits of butter or dripping or thin slices of fat salt pork or bacon under the fish and in the pan. Dredge with flour, sprinkle with salt and pepper and bake in a hot oven, Baste every ten minutes. Cook until the flesh is firm and on being touched separates easily from the bone. Remove from the oven, take out skewers and strings and serve on a hot platter, with fish or tomato sauce. Tasty Nut Recipes. Nut Kisses. -White of one egg, one- half cup of chopped nista, one cup of powdered sugar. Beat the white o$ egg until quite stiff and dry and then. add the sugar; beat again and lastly Jmtix in the sums, Drop in spoonfuls on 0 well -buttered tin and bake in a Moderate oven until brown. Lift on to a calve rack and leave to dry and get cold. Beep in an air -tight tin, Nut Bread. -hour cups of floor, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one cup of sugar, one-quarter tea - Useful Hints. Dates filled with cream cheese and chopped nuts are delicious. When spoons are egg -stained they may be easily cleaned by rubbing with salt. The most precious thing is time, and yet there is nothing we waste so free- ly. When knitting, drop your ball into a cup or jar and it will not roll out of reach. Cloves placed between blankets and clothing are said to be a good moth remedy. Lace that is continually cleaned with gasoline or naphtha is bound to turn yellow. When the stove becomes heavily coated with blacking, sandpaper it off before applying fresh polish. Wash lamp -chimneys in warm suds, then polish them easily and quickly with soft, crumpled newspaper. When straining hot fruit juice, pin the cloth to the sides of the dish with clothes -pins, and avoid burned hands. If you wish to boil a cracked egg, add a teaspoonful of, salt to the water and the white will not escape from the "shell. A delicious cake filling is made with sugar and cream boiled together and thickened with finely chopped nubs. Dates may be added to puddings, cakes and graham bread, and they will give both flavor and nourishment. Bread should never be kept wrap- ped in a cloth; the cloth will absorb moisture and impart an unpleasant taste to the bread. A little olive oil poured into the bottle of home-made catsup, after the bottle has been opened, will prevent it from spoiling 'so quickly. A dish of water placed .in a hot oven where pies, cakes or puddings are being baked will prevent them from scorching. By using soapy water when making starch the clothes will have a glossy appearance, and the irons will be less likely to stick. A full-length mirror set where there's a good light would snake many a dowdy woman straighten up and be more careful about her dress. Did you ever try boiling potatoes with a chicken? The fowl loses none of its relish by the neighborly cook- ing, and the potatoes gain a great deal. The best place to dry onions for fu- ture use is out of the sun. Sunshine toughens the outsideand a tough on- ion is not a very digestible thing to tackle. Write each child's name with inde- lible ink on broad tape, and sew in umbrella, overshoes and leggings, thus avoiding confusion in the school dressing -room. Put a large sponge in the bottom of the umbrella stand. It will absorb the moisture from a wet umbrella, and keep the stand from breaking if a heavy umbrella is dropped in. When raisins are added to rice pud- ding, the milk and rice should cook for some time before patting the raisins in, This will prevent the milk from curdling. After the cap of a fruit -jar has been screwed in place, invert the jar and dip the whole top in melted paraffine. Old caps and rubbers can by this means be used with safety. Cider fresh from the press, boiled down to one-half its bulk, and then sealed like grape -juice, will keep the flavor of fresh cider and be good for drinking of for putting in mince pies. spoonful salt, two cups of milk, one Fasten small pieces o.f, sandpaper cup of wah)uts and one tablespoonful where they will be handy for the of lard, Mix end sift the shy ingre. scratching of •matehea, This is a clients, add the. milk, meitetl lard and precaution which will ,ate paper and chopped nuts, Beat thoroughly and paid .from being marred. Fasten the Pour into Well -greased tins. Leave pieces with thumb -tacks. Better yets it standing far about thirty minutes use fafety-matrhea, Lady Haig Practises Red Cross Work. Lady Haig, wife of Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander -in -Chief, re- cently attended a fishing competition arranged by the Deal and Walmer Angling Association for the benefit of 150 wounded soldiers. The photo shows Lady Haig bandaging Private Borthwick's finger. Borthwick was the winner of the tournament. His finger was caught in a hook, giving Lady Haig an opportunity to display her aptitude for Rer Cross work. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON NOVEMBER 12. Lesson VIL-World's Temperance Sunday. Rom. 14. 13 to 15. 3. Golden Text. -Rom. 14: 21. Vers, 13, Judge is used in two senses, meaning "decide" the second time. Stumblingblock-This is an obstruction put in the way, over !which a man may fall, especially in the dark. The occasion of falling is generally taken to be practically the same thing, and the Greek word (whence our scandal) is commonly rendered "stumblingblock." More probably it means a trap or snare. The word or here is enough to suggest that the figure is changed, 14. Nothing is unclean of itself may be one of the quotations from these headstrong people who boast- ed their freedom from "feeble prejud- ices." So "all things are pure" (verse 20). "We have faith" (verse 22), "we that are strong" (Rom. 15-1). Paul admits them all, but turns then against their users by the greab prin- ciple, noblesse' oblige. Ant persuad- ed in the Lord -Paul's convictions, like all his words, thoughts, and deeds, were "in Christ" `Unclean - Literally, common, as distinguished from "sacred." The inferenc) was drawn from a saying of Jesus that made a peculiarly steep impression, when he swept away the distinction between clean and unclean meats: see Mark 7. 1.9, where the evangelist gives us a solitary comment on his story. We see that the distinction between sacred and ,the lies en- tirely in the soul: an act that in one man would be impious may be piety in another, and vice versa. 15. Is grieved -Because you eat what he regards as sinful -the prim- ary reference is to "meat offered to idols. Of course the principle vast- ly transcends this application. In these days it especially appeals to men of strong faith and strong minds who have no difficulty in combining mod- ern views with evangelic faith. Let such be very tender of the prejudices of the "weak" who fear all novelties! For whom Christ died -For he died for us all when "weak" (Rom. 6. 6). 16. Evil spoken of -The word of- ten rendered blasphemed; it is wider in Greek than in its English trans- literation. The good here is the Christian freedom which raised them above narrow prejudices. Paul tells them it will provoke grievous (and quite honest) misrepresentation, And as it is about an indifferent matter,' not a great principle, the avoidance of such is wise. 17. One of Paul's rare references bo the "kingdom." It is specially helpful as being impossible to square with that overstrained view which makes "the kingdom of God" always future, Compare the great saying of Luke 17. 21. In the Holy Spirit - The definite article is absent in the Greek. 18. Hereat -The word may be gen. eral ("in all this"), or may gram- matically refer back to "your good"; instead of maintaining their rights in the "good thing," they should "serve Christ" by foregoing it in the interests of the weak brother whom He is not ashamed to call brother. By doing this 110 may win that hardest of all prizes, the pleasing of God and met ab once, 19, Let us follow --Compare Hob. 12. 14. Psn, 34. 14 is the common origins& Edify -As in this Latin equivalent, the Greek word contains the metaphor of an "edifice." But it is wearing a little, and the idea of "help" and "advantage" is prominent. Our use of edify is south too narrow. I 20, 'i'he.work of God is the grndual preparation of a human soul for its glorious destiny. To rivlc the :.access olS such a work because an emuteipat• Preparing for Winter. In another month or two a large percentage of cars that have been us- ed exclusively for pleasure, will be stored away in buildings of some kind, sort or description. A small per- centage find lodgement in city gar- ages where they are always kept well heated and in excellent condition. A larger proportion, however, are put away fn barns or other buildings on the property of the owners. If you intend to do any work upon your motor during the winter months, do not forget that there is a new disease called petromortis. This is caused by the injurious gases filling the air in any garage not properly ventilated. See to it that your storage facilities include windows or pipes that will provide definite quantities of fresh air ab will. Here is another cool weather sug- gestion. Of course you realise that freezing troubles must be forestalled. If you are going to use your car on the warmer days of winter and do not wish to be constantly draining the radiator you should remember that a small radiator requires two quarts of wood alcohol, or two and one-half quarts de- natured. alcohol, the '•medium-size radiator demands one gallon wood alcohol or five quarts denatured, and the large size five and a half quarts wood alcohol or seven quarts dena- tured. This mixture will keep radia- tors from freezing at zero. If a cold snap comes and there is danger of the mercury dropping to twenty degrees below, your radiator should have 3, 6, 9, quarts of wood alcohol or denatured alcohol for the small, medium and large sizes respectively. To prevent freezing at thirty-five and forty de- grees below zero, the quantities must be increased to one gallon, two gallons, and eleven quarts. It would also be well to remember that wood alcohol is more effective than the denatured pro - ed but obstinate reformer will insist on eating something which the other, thinks wrong -how demnable a wick- edness! All things -See note on, verse 14. With offence -The word rendered stumblingblock in verse 14.1 The man follows his "strong" brother's example, but his conscience is not convinced, and he believes he is com-1 mitting sin. That belief is enough to constitute it sin! 21. Compare 1 Cor. 8. 13, the climax of a very similar argument,! but concentrated on one particular ap- plication. It is good -The word used implies moral beauty; it is a grand thing to go to such lengths, though the ideal is beyond most of us. The flesh and wine here are alike connect- ed with idolatry, the "weak" brother thi ki th d fil d b th ibil ity that they might have been offered to idols. While therefore this pass- age has no direct reference to the mo- tive is really identical, being still con- pideration for the weak "for whom Christ died." It is an outstanding ex- ample of the way in which the New Testament is so amazingly up to date; the circumstances for which its pre- cepts are designed become obsolete, but the principles Laid down adapt themselves perfectly to conditions un- dreamed of when the Book was writ- ten. 22. The self-opinionated "strong" man boasts that he "has faith for all things," as against the "weak [who] eateth herbs" (verse 2). Then let that faith work in his own heart: God will be able to see it, and that is the one object of faith! Judgeth not - The decision ought not 'even to come up for trial before the bar of eon - dud: under ordinary circumstances, but that at lower temperatures there is very little difference. In using an anti -freeze, first drain the entire cool. ing system and wash it out thoroughly with clean water. When you i.uve. added the proper amount of alcohol, fill the radiator to the usual level with clean water, then be sure to run the motor a f ow minutes in order that the solution may be properly mixed. The alcohol has a tendency to evaporate more or less rapidly, even in the cold- est weather, and more must be added from time to time to keep the solution up to the strength desired. Perhaps a pint every fortnight will be suf£ici- I ent, especially if when running the motor you do not allow the mixture to steam. Some people have secured very good results from adding three or four ounces of glycerine to the solu- tion, and there can certainly he no harm in following such a course. Most of the good motors are equip- ped with vacuum tank systems for drawing fuel to the carburetor, and after a season's running this very ex- cellent device may require a certain amount of attention. There are dan- gers to be avoided. -the collection of sediment in the strainer at the top of the tank, -Perhaps too, the cover has become slightly loose, ad- mitting air, and the third cause for minor trouble may be the looseness of the connections on the suction pipe at the manifold end or where it joins! the vacuum tank itself. Just to sat- isfy yourself that the vaccum system is in good running order, it might be well to give it an overhauling at your earliest convenience. If everything is found in satisfactory condition, you have the joy of knowing that the sea- son's work has been satisfactory and that your car, so far as its fuel trans- mission is concerned, is ready for an- other season's work. -"Auto" in Farmer's Advocate. PROBLEM OF THE DISABLED SOLDIERS. The Mother Country Advised to Fol- low Canada's Example. The London Daily Chronicle, the leading Liberal journal of the Im- perial Capital, gives the most promin- ent place in its issue of Oct. 4 to the following spontaneous and remarkable appreciation of Canada's method of restoring disabled soldiers to active and self-supporting citizenship. In this article the well-known waiter, Mr. J. Saxon Mills, goes so far as to suggest that the Mother Country in dealing with this problem might fol- low the example of the Dominion. "We are in danger of thinking that our responsibility for the wounded soldier is fulfilled when he is no long- er fit for military service, and when he is pensioned and discharged from the Army. We may learn much from the admirable system which has been science. Such glad confidence is the established by the Dominion Govern- ment." privilege of the "strong." The "weak," men like Bunyan's Mr. Fearing, have to avoid a multitude of harmless things because they have not faith enough for them. The strong and loving man must try to educate and; emancipate a conscience of this mor- bid kind, but never must he trample on it 23. This verse has been appallingly misused; it must be kept strictly to its context. Paul's real purpose is to warn men that to act in defiance of conscience is sin, even if a thing is no sin in itself. 15. I. We that are strong, al- though a quotation, does imply that Paul himself has no weak scruples, if he can be sure he is not risking oth- ers' peace of mind. Bear -These ir- ritating morbidities and foolish scruples are the burden strong men have to carry, because strength must alweys imply chivalry. 2. The reservation for that which is good is, of course, added to guard against cases where principle comes in. 3. Christ, or the Christ. He is mentioned here by his office, as 1S1 shown by the quotation attached from Psa. 69. 9-a verse the former half of which was also linked with the life of Jesus (John 2. 17). The speaker in that psahn is the oppressed people of the Jewa during some time when pious mon felt peculiarly that their trials were on account of their religion: the dark days before the Meccebees came would suit very well. New Testa- ment writers were constantly appro- priating to the Messiah words origin- ally belonging to Israel in its ideal as- pect. They would know where to stop in that psalm, which plunges sudden- ly into terrible imprecations, natural enough, but utterly vetoed by the Spirit of 'Christ. Tice 'bisect World. The insect world -represent.; 101 unlimited 11,1,1 of life and nctisity, The number as i-s.aoet specs 's is greater by far these of th:• suede", of all 0111er is lag sr. -stares comb;",d. A!that:gh ' .,." th rt 1110.000 11 s.0e been described. feel ••hly 1101ne 111.+1 number 0,•nsai,) to h, cai;nt:Med. Vir- tually ail 111 s 411 a.,i mals, as well as 111031 plants, suppiy food for these incomputable hordes, By an order in Council, dated June 30, 1915, the Canadian Government formed, at the instance of Sir Robert Borden, a Military Hospitals and Convalescent Honies Commission, "to deal with the provision of hospital ac- commodation and military convales- cent homes in Canada for officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who return invalided from the front." The Commission has learnt much by experience, and is to -day undoubtedly working on right lines. At first, the general idea was that convalescent homes, where discharged soldiers would spend a short time for rest and refreshment, would be the chief re- quirement, and scores of houses and hundreds of workers were placed at the disposal of the Commission. But this idea was soon dispelled when it was found that the treatment of the disabled soldiers was a more serious and lengthy business, Months or even weeks spent in the atmosphere of such a home would tend to injure rather than strengthen the physical and moral fibre. On this subject Mr. J. S. McLennan, a member of the commission, said: "We are changing as rapidly as may be our convalescent homes into hos- pitals where, in the interests of the met, their time will be fully 'templed, their physical restoration made as perfect as possible, and, from the be- ginning, the bad effects of idleness obviated by employment" At all these hospitals, schools are held where training of an elementary and non -vocational character is giv- en in English, French, mechanical drawing, arithmetic, wood -carving, &c. These classes are open to all in- mates, whether they are able to re- turn to their former occupations or not, But, frons these homes and hos: pitals, the men who are not so able can be sent on, niter they have been pensioned and discharged, to technical institutions, agricultural colleges, schools of telegraphy, &e„ where they can be taught 11011 occupations v;hivh their disablement does not pre- vent them from following. And that is not all, for mnploymesti. is practical- ly n u•t,ieal-ly u.anred to them by the Provincial t:omniissions lend tic. Federal Military ilospltnla 1 i „n) which have charged tht..:.ct, with the duty of finding work and wages for the returning veterans. The aim of the Commission is to do its best for the physical and economic well-being of the men, and to bring to bear on him such influ- ences that he may perform for his country a service not less important than those of the firing line, namely, that, instead of being an idle ward of the State, he becomes a shining ex- ample to the young, of self -depend- ence, of courage, and perseverance in overcoming disabilities. It would be an excellent thing if we had a system similar to this, and based upon the same sound principles, established in these islands. CELLULOID FOR WOUNDS. Perforated Sheet to Replace Lint Next to Large Cuts. Opinion among surgeons and nurses is practically unanimous in favor of the advantages of a new method of dressing large and painful wounds, whereby a thin layer of perforated celhiloid is substituted for lint as the first covering for the raw wound. The' plan was tried successfully first by Sir Allmoth Wright at St. Diary's Hospital, Paddington, London, and now promises to become generally adopted. The celluloid, first rendered soft and pliable by being soaked in a twenty per cent. solution of carbolic acid and then washed in a weak salt solution, is laid on the raw wound, the perforations being so numerous that it seems mostly holes. Fine lint i soaked in a five per cent. solution of common salt in water is then placed over tae ce.... , bandages are applied. Owing to the celluloid much firmer pressure can be used than with ordinary dressings. One surgeon, explaining the advant- ages of the celluloid dressing, further said: "In many cases the healing of a large wound is actually retarded by the general bodily depression result-, ing from the pain caused in the dress- ing of it. Again, gauze bandages, when laid directly on the raw wound, I must inevitably in the process of re- moval, tear away from their site cer- tain of the tiny new cells which are formed by nature in affecting the ; cure. Every cell thus destroyed has to 00 tentacle, and so healing is de- layed." Japan's Wayside Inns. The wayside inn of Japan, unlike the sera' of Western or Central Asia, is superficially clean, and supplies all the necessaries and, hi a modified form, some of the luxuries of life. Quilts, which the lodger spreads on the straw -Matted floor, are provided for him to sleep on; food --edible, if unsatisfying -is served him in tiny bowls, with chopsticks supplied; and a boiling hot bath, common to all and sundry, welcomes him at the end of his day's march. A New Economy. "Ile was always trying to save him- self trouble." 1 "And did he succeed?" "Yes. lie has saved up a whole lot mese than he can take care 01." OUL Y Plan for Winter Egg Market. By present indications eggs will reach a high price this winter. This means a good profit for the poultry - keeper, It is hard for those who have to buy, but it simply turns the tables with the poultryman, for he has to pay the high prices for other com- modities which he uses. Storage eggs had such a black eye a year ago that most people prefer to go without eggs than to use them, The strictly fresh egg will command a premium this winter. If you can work up a family egg trade, you can do well with poultry. The housewife would rather pay five cents or more above the market price for good fresh eggs than to be compelled to buy from the store and get eggs of an uncertain quality. Keep the Best. Good birds will pay their way, no matter how you are working the busi- ness. There are farmers who make the hen pay the grocery bills, and at the same time do not give the birds the attention that they deserve. If proper care were given these same birds, the results would be far greater. You can make your poultry do more than they now do, if you will plan your work wisely and give them a little extra care. Winter Poultry Pickings. Scratching hens make laying hens. Cold damp poultry -houses -empty egg basket, Take the chill off the drinking -wat- er. Ice-cold water checks the pro- duction of eggs. Corn is an essential in winter, but should be supplied only in connection with other grains, such as wheat, oats, barley, etc. Sliced potatoes with the peelings on, cooked in sweet milk, make an excel- lent mash for layers, and should be fed while it is warm, not hot. No matter how bright and pleasant it is overhead, your laying hens must be kept in out of the snow and slush, if you expect them to do their best for you. When the chickens are cooped up on account of out -door conditions, lab in all the sunlight you possibly can. Ventilation is also necessary and very beneficial. Clean out the droppings the same in winter as in summer. Chickens will scratch, and it is so handy for them to jump down off the roost these cold mornings, and scratch around in the filth and dirt. A quart of clover and r. few scraps of meat, boiled together and hacked up fine, form tate best of all egg produc- ers. The above quantity is sufficient for fifteen fowls. Feed warm, three times a week. What's use of keeping more of those small young cockerels than you need to run with your flock next sea- son? They don't grow much larger during the winter, and they eat just as much high-priced grain as your lay- ing hens. Get rid of them at once! THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. Feminine Charms of Three of the Al- lied Countries' Wooten. A celebrated Italian writer of Florence has been favoring the world with itis opinion of the women of. Europe. Happily, he has had Clothing to say about the German woman, but he does speak of the feminine charms of three of the Allied countries' women. He gives the palm to a nation which is not at war -namely, Spain. He says: "The Spanish woman is bewitchingly beautiful. She has small hands and feet, and large eyes like the open windows of a sunburnt marble palace, a figure full of grace and life, and long, dark, wavy hair. She is very religious, very ignorant, very jealous, very sensitive, and very proud." Of the British woman he says: "Her hair is like gold; she has heav- enly eyes, a peach -like complexion, a delicately -formed nose, and good teeth, She is reserved, very active, and generally a slave to etiquette." As to the Frenchwoman he is less complimentary. It is thus he de- scribes her: "She is a cat and a ser- pent, a palm and a violet, and when she is not pretty she is charming, She is amiable, a dreadful coquette„ and generally false." His summary of the Russiapt woman is that she is "of an Oriental type which had been prematurely transported into Europe. In her are combined the extraordinary charms of a savage and the civilized woman. Even Up. A popular London clergyman was once spending a few days at a coon - try house with some friends. On the Monday morning he was playing ten- nis wibh a young man he could usually beat, but for some reason or other the clergyman was not in foga and was faring badly. Between games he remarked to his opponent: "I simply can't stand your service to -day!" "Then we're quits)" was the cheeky reply. "I couldn't aka yours yes- terday!"