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The Brussels Post, 1917-1-18, Page 3ffhe asenk outer , Economical Recipes. potato Pancakes -These call for five medium-sized potatoes, grated. Add three tablespoonfuls sweet milk, a pinch of salt and half cupful flour. Mix well and bake in rather large cakes on a griddle. Breakfast bacon served with them% tine. Flank Steak and Rice -Have th steak well slashed; cut into rathe large pieces, roll each in flour and le slowly .cook in plenty of dripping Add a cupful hot water when th steals has slightly browned, Have tw cupfuls of cooked rice ready, Whe the steak is thoroughly done pour steak and gravy over the rife; seaso with butter, salt and black pepper, a let simmer, covered, for ten minutes, Corn Dodgers -These are really breakfast bread, but you'll not fin them scorned at the evening meal. To make, put half a teaspoonful salt in a pint o£ cornmeal; add a teaspoonful lard and scald with boiling water. Beat hard for a few minutes. Drop a large spoonful in a greased pan. The hatter should be thick enough barely to flatten on the bottom leav- ing the "dodgers" quite high in the centre. Bake in a hot oven. liiggiess Oatmeal Cookies -One cup ful sugar creamed with a cupfu shortening, add half a cupful so milk or buttermilk, into which a tea spoonful of soda is dissolved, four cup full raw oatmeal and grated nutme or vanilla extract to taste. The may be rolled out and cut into two -ins squares and baked a delicate brown or may be dropped from the tip o spoon o to a greased tin. Egg,I s Salad Dressing -Mix to gether tablespoonful each dry mus Lard and sugar. Sift twice, then add slowly one-fourth cupful olive of very well together, and set it on the fire again till the sugar is well melt- ed but be sura it does not boil; you may put in'a little peel, email shred and grated, and when it is coldd raw it up in double papers, dry them be- fore the fire, and when you turn them, put two together or you may put them in deep glasses or pots and dry them ✓ as you have occasion. Orange Biscuit -Pure your• oranges, t not very thick, "dirt them into water, s' but first weigh your peel; let it stand o over the fire and let it boil until it be- o mines vory tender; then beat it in an n agate boil till it becomes a very fine smooth p ste; to every ounce of peel n put two ounces and a half of double d refiuod sugar, finely fierced, mix them well together with a spoon in the a bowl, then • spread it with a knife upon pie plates and set it in the open to warm; when it feels dry uopn the top cut it into what fashion you please and set in a stone until dry. Where the edges look rough when it is dry they must be cut with a pair of scissors. Orange Loaves -Take your orange and cut a round hole in the top, take out all the meat and as much of the white as you can without breaking the - skin; then ball in water, shifting the 1 water until it is not bitter; then take sou . them up and wipe them dry; then take i a pound of fine sugar, a quart of wet- - er or in proportion to the oranges; g boil it and take of the skum as it Sriseth; then put in your oranges and ).° • let them boil a little and let them lie �a day or two in the syrup; then take • the yolks of two eggs, a quarter of a pint of cream, boat them well togeth- - er; then grate id two biscuits, or white bread, a quarter of a pound of butter and four spoonfuls of sack; i. mixing well. Add three-fourths cup ful milk scalded,and thickened with tablespoonful flour and three cupful vinegar. Cook all in a double boils gether till y melted; then fill the oranges with it a and bake them in a slow oven as long s as you would a custard; then place in ..: till thick like custard. If bottled this will keep indefinitely. Fig Pudding -A quarter of a poen of flour and a quarter of a pound bread crumbs .mixed together, a guar ter of a pound of suet chopped very fine, a quarter of a pound of mois sugar, six ounces of figs cut int small pieces, and a. teaspoonful of bak ing powder. Mix these ingredient vory thoroughly with a little milk an two well beaten eggs; if no^eggs ar them with sack, melted butter and d _ o meal To Remember. - A hurried!y swallowed s s wallows i of t small value. o Save work by keeping things in _ order as you go. s' Ashes should always be sifted to d -save the cinders. o. If the dinner planned seems unin- _.teresting, make a dainty dessert. If you feel very tired and drowsy, t dash very cold water in your face. When making puddings, pito so that there will be little or nothing left over. j Discard all old fruit jar rubbers. [They are apt to spoil the fruit if used a second time. When making gingerbread, collect all the odd bits of cooked fruits and jelly in the pantry and mix them in the batter. This will add a good flavor. If you have a small portion of string beans and a small portion of beets, put them together and dress with butter. Though pork is dear, sausages make a suitable and appetizing breakfast ' dish. To prevent bursting when fried, sausages should be first dipped in boiling water Minced cooked ham can be used for breakfast sandwiches? After it has been spread on the breadand sand - wick is dipped in a better and fried, land served very hot, WAR BREAD BENEFITS HEALTH• at hand, a little more milk will he re quired. Put the mixture into a greased mold, tie it over and give i three hours' boiling, Milk Rolle -One pound of flour, one ounce of batter one ounce of yeast and a little milk and salt. Warns the milk and dissolve the yeast in it .with the salt, then rub the butter into the flour. Make a hole in the center, pour in tine milk and yeast and mix to a stiff dough. Cover the bowl and leave in a warm place. When the dough is well risen turn it on to a board and knead well. Cover the bowl again and leave for a time. Flour a baking tin, form the dough into small rolls, then cover and leave again for about twenty minutes. Brush the tops of the rolls with beaten eggs and then bake in a quick oven. Parsnip Chowder -Three slices fat salt pork, diced; one medium-sized on - tan sliced thin, two cupfuls cubed raw potato, It cupfuls cubed raw pars- nips, three cupfuls boiling water, one quart Scalded milk, throe tablespoon- fuls butter four water crackers or one- half cupful "cracker crumbs two tea- spoonfuls salt one-fourth teaspoonful pepper, Combine the salt pork and onion in the soup kettle and cook for five minutes, taking care not to burn the onion; add to this half the pota- toes, the parsnips and the remaining potatoes, sprinkle over the salt and pepper, add the boiling, water and simmer until the vegetables are soft, Then add the scalded milk, butter and crackers split and soaked in cold milk, or the crumbs, Orange Delicacies. Orange Wafers -Take the best oranges and boil them in three or four waters till they become tender, Then take out the seeds and the juice and beatthem to a pulp in a clean agate bowl and rub them through n hair : sieve; to a pound of ibis pulp take a pound and a half of double refined sugar, beaten and fierced; take half of your sugar and put it into your oranges and boil it until it ropes; then take it from the fire, and when it It cold make it up in paste with the other half of your sugar; make but a little at a time, for it will dry too fast; then, with a little rolling pin, troll them oat as thin as tiffany upon papers; cut them round with a little drinking glass and let them dry, and they will look very clear, Oretrge Cakes -Take the peel of flour oranges, being first pared, and the meat taken out, boil them tender ppnd beat them amali hi a mortar; t1lee tako the meat of .them en two more oranges, your seeds and skins being picked out, and unix with the beaten peeling; set thein on a fire with a spoonful of orange flower wat- er, keep it stirring until that moisture fa pretty well dried up, than have ;toady to every pound of the pulp ;Cour pounds and a quarter of doable refined sugar, finely flerced; make your sugar very hot and dry it upon the lire had then mix it and the pulp 1 : Wholemeal Bread Order Should Be Welcomed By All. A regulation that is unimpeach- able is the wholemeal bread order, remarks a London paper, If proper care is taken by the authoritiee that halters do not foist bad flour or un - l' due quantities of bran upon the pur- chaser, the benefit to the health and strength of the public, and especial- ly to growing children, from using the whole wheat must be great, and habit will soon render the wholemeal bread palatable. May we all have enough of it! .In old times there were many varieties of bread used besides that .made of the whitest wheat flour•. The vory white bread) deprived of some of the most valu- able parts of the wheat, that of re- cent times everybody has claimed as a right, was then called "man - shot," and regarded as a luxury; white those who had to rely mainly upon bread for their actual nourish- ment used wfrolemeal or "black" wheaten bread, or often what wale called "meslin" bread, which was a mixture of wheat and other shopper kinds o. hour, such as barley meal or pea -meal, We may have to sam- ple "meslin" again. Rye bread, al- ways largely oaten in Germany, is said to be nice enoeglt when one is used to it, and ia mixttiro of rye and wheat to be both economical and agreeable, Ilse counts for so much, ------4. After His Marriage, They had just become engaged. • "What joy it will be," she exclaim- ed, 'for mo to share all your griefs and sorrows!" "But, darling," he protested, "I have nolle," "Perhaps not now," she a'tsworod, 'but when we aro mauled ,you Will navel' THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON JANUARY 21,--• Leeson III. -First Disciples of The Lord Jesus --John 1. 35-51 Golden Text John 1. 43. Verse 35. Two -Who Andrew's companion was, of coarse, we do not know. The new reading in verse 41 weakens the suggestion that it was Joh 38. Turned -Tho picture reminds us of John 21. 20. Abidest-They want- ed to find where the Master was stay- ing, that they might stay with hint. 89. .We may conceive bis inviting them in words such as the disciples used to him at Emmaus (Luke 24. 29). Tenth -This Gospel is the only New Testament book which names any other of the twelve divisions of'day- light except third, sixth, and ninth- which only mean morning, noon, and afternoon; Matt. 20. 6 is an exception that only proves the rule. It is characteristic of the Evangelist's eye for detail, for only unusual powers of 'observation could approximate to the hours in the absence of a sundial. 40. Andrew -Note his Greek name, like Philip's. In "Galilee of the Gent'ile's" Greek was muh at home, • It is very noteworthy that this Gospel tells us details of several of the twelve -Andrew, Philip, Judas son of James, Thomas -of whoa the Synoptics have not a word, except that Andrew is named as with his brother and the sons of Zebedee. Matthew is named in the first Gospel at the story of his call. Otherwise, Peter, James, John and the Traitor are the only apostles of whom we hear more than their names in the list. 41. First -Our oldest authority, the (second century Syriace Gospels dis- covered by Mrs. Lewis, has enabled us to recover a much more probable reading, early (next] morning. We picture Andrew spending the last hours of daylight with Jesus, and probably much of the night, and then hurrying away with the dawn to fetch his own brother: the term suggests the special tie that binds this quiet, helpful man to the powerful personal- ity of his brother. The Messiah - See note on verse 34, Lesson 11. It is impossible to reconcile this as a literal report with. the Synoptics, which . show that the Messiahabip was a secret not revealed till near the end; (see especially Mark 8. 29.) But if Andrew actually said (for instance),' "We have found the Prophet," it is easy to understand the Evangelist's translating the term into the perman- ent title which when the revelation was complete meant the same thing. 42. Looked -The record of these looks of Jesus is a very vivid feature of Mark's Gospel (thus 10, 23-27), but Luke 22, 61 is yet more impressive. One who had seen them might well picture the glorified Lord ns having "eyes as a flame of fire" (Rev. 1, 14). Cephas-The crowning application of the name is given in Matt. 16. 18, It is not given him for what he was by1 nature; it is a splendid paradox that it falls on one who so often shows • himself "unstable as water." But in' the presence of a Divine Christ water, can become firm as rock (Matt. 14. 29). 43. He findeth Philip -His record' suggests a timid, self -distrustful man, not likely, like Andrew, to "find" Christ, and needing therefore to "be found of him." • 44. Bethsaida Julies, in the north- east corner of the Lake. 46. Nathanael-Often supposed to be identical with Bar-Tolmai, who is a named next to Philip Ib the Bata of the twelve; the "son of Tolim i" pre. eumably had a name of hls own, But we must not too confidently assume that these called dieciples were all meant to he of the twelve, Moses . and the prophets -Virtually meaning "the Old Testament." Jesus ---An extremely common name, for the memory of Joshua, and the reminder of the "Divine Deliverance," were specially neat faithful Israelites'' hearts at this time, The full designa- tion was needed to identify. 46. Nazareth is wholly unknown be- fore this period, a fact that does not surprise us. This remark of Nathan- nael's may imply that it had some note, but nothing to its credit. Its failure to appreciate Jesus after his long residence (Luke 4. 29) is certain- ly suggestive, 47. Israelite -The :father of the "sons of Israel," the guileful Jacob, received this name as a token of a great change. hence it was appro- priate as the name of privilege. 48. It is suggested that the words recall some oecuptaion-meditation and prayer most probably -which marked this resting beneath the fig tree: Nathannael thought himself un- observed: 49. The "true Israelite" knows his King. The temperament which finds faith easy is impressively eontrasted in this Gospel with that which finds It hard: see John 20. 24-29. But Thomas reached the same goal. A FAMOUS CLOWN. Most Induetrions, Successful and Be- loved Jester in Russia. One of the famous people who pass- ed away since the war began is the famous Russian clown, Anatole Durov, Duron held that, whatever your vo- cation, the only thing that brings you success is work. Accordingly, he be- came the most industrious, successful and beloved clown in the world, too, for when he died, no't long since, he left a fortune of a million dollars, and a collection of trained animals that brought visitors to his home from all over the world. Born of an ancient and noble fam- ily, he was a pupil of the renowned Cadet Corps, but before his gradua- tion he ran away and joined a circus. But he had no ambition to be an or- dinary clown. He kept in touch with politics, with everything that took place in Russia, and applied to it his wit. Soon he became an unlicensed censor of Russian society in motley. Evil he rebuked by jest and gibe. No man was in too high a place for his tongue, and furious officials once brought about his exile. Russia lov- ed him too well for that, however, and soon he was hack in the ring. To shcv that he meant to be more dis- creet, he appeared with a padlock at- tacked to his mouth. He was a very famous animal train - or. The pig was his favorite pupil, and it is said that his pigs could do almost everything that human beings! can do except talk. A team of trained pigs drew ]rim The Whiter Clean-up. If you find time hanging heavily on your hands this winter, and your auto- mobile does not present an attractive appearance, we would suggest that you take it to some expert carriage painter and have it gone over, The cost will be from $25,00 up, according to the kind of job desired, but you can rest assured that the expenditure of this money will he gratifying in the highest degree. If a minimum price of $25.00 seems too much and you can afford sufficient time to do the work yourself, there are a number of very excellent varnishes that can be ,secured in any hardware store. Upon most of them ample directions are given as to ti te amount to be applied and the brushes that are essential. There is one point which you must firmly im- press upon your mind, however, and that is not to do this work in any place other than a thoroughly warm room. Varnish that is applied in a low temperature never gives satis- factory results. You must also bear inmind that the space selected for work of this character, should be absolutely free of the slightest draft. It would be well to put a lock on the door so that no one can enter the room while the operation is going on. See that the floor, the walls and the ceil- ing have been cleaned beforehand, and in doing the work, it might be well to pull heavy socks over your boots or shoos in order that no dust may be raised. Even the smallest particle of grit or dirt that flies into the air, and subsequently alights upon the warm varnish leaves what is known as a "needle point", and these are not only far from pleasing to the eye, but also are not delightful to touch. In auto- mobile factories where the original fine finishes are put on cars, the worlc- men are locked in rooms, and after a job had been completed, it is roiled on a carriage to another room and there kept secluded even from public view. After the varnish has set- tled, of coarse it is not necessary to maintain a high temperature. g p If the purchase of varnish does not appeal to your pocket -hook, you can buy, at very low prices, a number of cleaning and polishing mixtures that give excellent satisfaction, but in put- ting them on, remember' that the main thing in their application is not so much the quantity applied, as the per- sistent rubbing. In other words, it is not what is put on but rather what you take off that gives theft nest ef- fect, Do not undertake this work un- less you are thoroughly determined beforehand to rub every square inch about the streets, and so did he love] them that a pig's head with a "D" to; the left was the device upon his seal.\ He used to enjoy telling how, when he was on tour in Germany, one of iris pigs ran away and came finally to a farm not far from Berlin. The farm -1 Items for Henneries. er, who was a kind man, gave the tired -looking beast food and drink. To j Dry earth pulerized is a good sub - his consternation, the visitor solemn -salters far road dust. ly mounted an upturned barrel, look -1 Now bring out some of those nice ed gratefully at its host, and stood on lawn clippings you saved for the fowls. of surface until the varnish is as smooth as glass. Wheat any quant- ity of this preparation is allowed to remain on the fenders, hoods, skirts or bodies of care, the effect you have desired to obtain will be lacking. Cleaning the Car, If yourmachine was purchased last spring, and has not been run a great deal during muddy weather, and if also you were careful enough to wash it thoroughly at frequent intervals, perhaps it does not require either varnish or polish, In such a case, however, it would be well for you to take some good quality of soap and cleanse the car thoroughly all over. In this, as in all other methods, it is essential that every particle of mat- erial applied should be thoroughly rubbed. Soap is a good thing to re- move dirt from enamel or painted sur- faces, but even the smallest amount should not be left after application. De not, on any account, use cheap grades of laundry bars or other soaps of inferior quality. A high grade: toilet article must be adopted. The 1 difference in the price of the material utilized is so small that risks should be minimized. While we are on this question of the' winter clean-up, it might be well to again emphasize the advisability of using a gas spray on the motor itself. Gasoline cuts grease, ail and dirt and leaves a metal surface bright and shin- ing. If you haven't the necessary power to create a spray, gasoline can be applied with cloths, but no matter how you use the fuel, remember to rub thoroughly dry every particle you attempt to clean, and under no sir -1 cumstances, start your engine or al -1 low a naked light to be in the vicinity while the operation is going on. This advice may seem simple and unneces- sary, hut accidents are bound to hap- OMANY' FOOD SITUATION (UNDOUBTEDLY BECOMING EX. TREMBLY SEgro s. Only s. Revolution Can. Save the German People Froin Starvation, Another and far more passionate bid for peace is coming from Germany before Easter, when the seriousness of economic conditions, and the terrific food shortage may compel Germany to end the war. This prediction is made by the editor of the London Spectator. Though generally conservative in ex- pressing opinions on the war, he in- sists this prediction is based upon in- formation from the highest sources. He writes: "Soon peace may be as terrible as war, there may be no ships in which to bring corn to save the German peo- ple from famine. Only a sudden and universal determination of the Ger- man people not to let themselves be starved can save them, but that is revolution. Revolution seems beyond the daring 01 a Prussian." Food Situation Is Serious. The Spectator's informant, in a review based exclusively on German official statements, says: "Germany's food situation is undoubtedly becom- ing extremely serious. Before the war Germany imported in an average year about 15,000,000 tons of food for men and beasts. Germany is no doubt still importing considerable quantities of foodstuffs from her neutral neighbors, but, compared with the colossal quantities she imported before the war, these supplies are utterly insignificant. "The Germans are the greatest po- tato eaters in the world now. Accord- ing to Government statements, the potato harvest is a terrible failure. It is officially asserted that the last pen if any carelessness is allowed to harvest yielded only twenty million creep in. 1 tons, against an average yield of al - The cleaning of a top is a rather most fifty million tons. Therefore difficult proposition, and while we can the Government has announced that ,say in a general way that gas blown the weekly potato ration per inhabit- , i givesexcellent results, ant has the fabric been reduced lately from ten still we would suggest that you secure to seven, and then to five pounds a some expert's advice as to the nature week, or three-quarters of a pound a of the foreign matter that has been day. picked up, before you attempt to "How insufficient this must he for eliminate it. If the stains are not the average German is evident from of a serious character and the con- the fact that the daily potato ration dition of the top is purely the result of soldiers during manoeuvres is of dust and dirt gathered up along three and a quarter pounds, in addi- the road, easy beating and a thin gas tion to which they receive oro and spray, would make a tremendous dif- three-quarter pounds of bread and ference in appearance. For small three-quarters of a pound of meat. spots, the rubbing in of gasoline ivith "The question arises whether Ger- cheesecloth usually give satisfactory many will be able to hold out until results. -Auto in Farmer's Advocate. the next harvest, or whether, like a !surrender fortress, she may have to shrunken barley, or buckwheat, are 'surrender at discretion for lack or Germany cannot Wait, of course, suitable. I until her food supplies are dangerous - To supplement these waste cabbage ly depleted. Europe contains no sur - food. leaves and mangels may be given, for plus food. There is a world shortage !rens enjoy a little succulence as well and a deficiency of tonnage will make as do dairy cows. Waste clover or al- it difficult to reprovision Germany. falfa leaves are always welcomed and Whole Nation Will Want. are relished either dry or steamed. One hundred hops will eat from a peck "She would therefore have to make to a bushel of these leaves in a day.' peace in good time for otherwise the To nothing on the farm can surplus whole nation might be reduced to milk he fed to better advantage and a famine. Possibly Germany may find little of this daily, along with the table sufficient food to tide her over in scraps, will go far toward taking the Eastern Rumania or Southern Rua - place of the meat scrap, of which the sia. Her entire strategy seems to present prices are so prohibitive. be directed by her need of food. Foss Abundance of grit helps to save the sibly she considers her position des - feed bill by assisting in more complete ; perate. If the letter should be the digestion. 1case her recent pease proposals would Care saves the feed, for with good have been sincere. In that event they care and housing, even the cheapest would presumably be renewed before feeds may give bettor results than long. The statesmen and strategists higher priced grains when poor care of the entente should therefore watch is given. -Farm and Dairy. carefully the fond problem of Ger- ._ many." Would Have Done Time. Tho Duke of Westminster, whose fleet of armored motor ears has done such splendid service in Egypt and on the Somme front, is one of the most versatile of men. He once emulated the mythical "Raffles" by committing a burglary -of course for fun -at the mansion of his friend, Lord Cholnnon- deleyo at dead of night, and he has been the central figure in many simi- lar wild pranks. Not long since he was caught ex- reeding the speed limit while motor- ing up to London, summoned, and fined "thirty shillings or seven days." His lawyer paid the money, at the same time remarking to a friend that "he was glad the Duke wasn't present in court." "Wiry?" was the quite natural query. "Because," replied the man of law dryly, "he'd have done the seven days lilce a shot ,just for the experi- ence of iii' Metal for Wall Paper. OULTRY P- ‘1. its head as a token of appreciation,Sunlight is a germ destroyer. Let it into your houses ,every day ay yo u can . Busy....Poultry feeds varyin quality. Bran is sometimes adulterated with chaff, Bliggfns says a man ought to at- etc. tend to his own business." Geese wash their foots down with "Yes. But he thinks it's his bus- ness to show everybody else how to ttend to his business." SNE taliertsS tax. UNE .�1 m" an.1. lam, 1'jRP AR EV.„ - r Mo rnnF0. Ali AR 'arum 0ct ritlin':S ry .Ana FENCE, m,T, 4 (Sal fIAN coo rA�f1I9 'trout tem. f 4000 V.045 V,IM6 FA070A,E5 IN accAPA THE FOREST DOLLAR. It Is the Ally and Supporter of Agri- culture. Although the interests, of the farm and the forest have been regarded in tho past ns"more or less distinct and hostile, the broader outlook stimulat- ed by the war has brought intelligent Canadians to understand the Woods- man and tine agriculturist es close partners irn the ;;'rent Canaclinn astute. Moro than sixty per cent. of the whole area of Canada is adapted by Nature for growing timber or hplcl as permanent barrens and will not produce field crops profitably. On this sixty per ant. no farmer desires an acre. At the same time itought to be producing revenues for the nation, As much of it as possible should be kept under forest growth, producing wood crops regularly, This is the argument for "forest eoeservatimn" its a nutsi,•ell, l`io one asks to'bo allow - illriSs Lt a ed to use agricultural lands for tree growing, And no farmer will object If the comrtry mutinies non-agricul- turaI l lands ie their natural money - snaking conditions, giving timber bar -1 vests year by year. The Forrest Dollar, therefore, is not f earned at the expense of agriculture,, but is the ally and supporter of agri- culture. Cannda takes $200,000,000 n year from the forests and a very: great part of this amount goes to; purchase farm products. Until every destructive foreet fire is stopped and; every timber -growing area restored to its productive condition, Canada's agricultural interests must suffer the chief loss. Of every hundred dollara that conte out of the forest, seventy- five eventylive dollars go for wages and supplies, The remaining twenty-five dollars pay interest on the lumbermen's in- vestment and help make up the $7,- 600,000 taken by the provincial and federal governments each year in taxes, -Canadian Forestry Amide - tion, Ottawa, lots of water. Give them plenty, and have it always good and fresh, Folks use onions to ward off colds. Just exactly as good for hens, Chop then fine and mix with other feed. Take a bit of time and wipe off the windows of the houses, Hens like a nice light hone as well as you do. Some of the boughten egg produc- ers are fine, but with the best of them must go good care and kindly trcat- me.ut, fancy fixings add nothing to efl'iri- eery. Good, substantial things are all the hens demand for the furnish- ings of their houses. Let's not forget that every day now counts toward a fine hatch next spring. It is the care the !rens have now, and from this day on, that counts. Have you ever thought that hens prefer dark nests in which to do their laying? It is so, and it will pay to do as she thinks best about such things. Some things we etre the boss about; others she ought to have the say -5a. Cheapening Egg Production, The cost of egg production las soared with the cost of teed and labor, but the coat of feed at least rah be greatly lessened by the exercise of greater intelligence in the selection of the feed and greater care in the management of thep oultry. In making up the winter ration, there- fore, cheapness should he more then ever a factor taken into consideration. First of all, there is that feed which is grown on the farm, Grain £ed near where it: is grown has less of the labor element in its value and is therefore cheaper, but of the various grains grown on the farm, some are cheaper than others awl hens are not so discriminating but that they would welcome Coeds that will not bring the highest nar•kot price:,, Sereenings and inferior grains, fieeen wheat, Thin metal plates, which weigh about four pounds to the square yard, are being used in France in- stead of piaster and wall paper. Sonne of tho advantages of using thie ma- terial are: It can be bought and plated in position at less cost than the old materials; the room can be kept at a more even temperature; workmen have little trouble In learn- ing to use it, When rusty shell splietors aro found in the body of a wounded soldier, they :aro drawn out wholesale bya�hn huge electro -magnet, KRUPP WORKERS' EARNINGS. Many More Savings Bank Depositors Since War Began. The war time earnings of the em- ployes of Krupp are indicated by their savings in the hank established for them by the firm. For the fiscal year 1915.16 the number of depositors in the Krupp savings institution increas- ed by the record-breaking figure of 8,083, and their deposits by 4,866,002 marks. That brings the total number of depositors up to 81,597, and the to- tal savings up toe 12,864,983 marks, The number of savers thus is nearly one-half of the number of persons em - 1 played by Krupp, and three-fourths of the number employed at about the be- ginnhng of the fiscal year for which the figures are taken. Stopped For "Charlie B." Lord Beresford, popularly known as "Charlie B." was one of the greatest authorities in the House of Commons on naval matters, acid recently made a notable speech in the city which was trot lacking in "ginger." Here is a story of the famous ad- miral: Solna years ago Beresford was crossing the Irish Sea, when a small dog belonging to one of the pawns gars fell overboard. "Hi, therot" cried Lord Beresford. "There's a dog overboard. "Sorry, sir," replied the captain, "but VAI can't stop for a dog," "Well, yon can stop for a man," rre- torted the phieky M,P., its he jumped overboard to Rescue the drowning animal.