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The Brussels Post, 1917-5-24, Page 2Between Cousins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. CHAPTER V. 1 provements" to lend hint an unliividl A year later the question of how ed attention, this was no g)•eat sacri they would was "pull together" being,fee. Reticence was far Vlore natural p g s vealto him than expansion, which bad, in a good many prosaic facts had poked fact, been only a passing phase, artifi- their plain faces right through the catty provoked. With searoely a pang rose-colored veils of illusion hithertohe returned to his former exclusive self -communion, shrouding them. 1'• Things had sat turned out just as! Occasionally, ass he viewed the"im- Ella ;expeeted, John's social educe- provernents" Ella ssurel him i tion, in particular, dragged sadly.; essential, a mild bewilderment would Curiously enough, he had not yet be come over him. The white cap and gun to grasp the extent of his duties apron which the maid -of -all -work was both towards herself and towards his, rigorously compelled to don before own position, It was all right, of; opening the door, the dessert plates course, his devoting himself to his and the finger -bowls (out of which ministry; but slid his duty demand of he had began by trying to drink) -- him to be at the beck and call of every there were things so strange to him rheumatic old woman for miles around,! as to be almost disquieting. Gently, who was too stiff on her legs to come but firmly, he had been trained to and, fetch'the spiritual consolation she! change Ills coat every evening, and im g I h 1£ • d f? Wh ' had at used to the silk blouse in partially answered During the a met erse m nee o at a g she saw from there Was extremely touching;.a young wife, living a life almost forlorn, cut off by'her present delicate state of health Mara any as- sistance she might otherwise have given ]ler husband, and thus. virtually shut out from his life. Or, from an- other point of view, a woman of educa- tion and (aspirations,' exiled in a land of semi barbarians, and tied to a' elan who would not understand her real wants. The vision caused more than one flood of tears to rise to her eyes during those idle days spent per- force upon the soft; in the much-im- proved sitting -no, drawing -roots, That even the prospect of becoming a father should have changed John so little was, in Ella's opinion, the worst symptom of all. True, he had beam- ed at the first intelligence, and thank- ed Gad upon his knees for the favor; but his remarks upon the coming event only too clearly betrayed the subjec tiveiece it took in his mind. "Ifs it were a boy, Ella --oh, if it were a boy," had been almost his first words. "What happiness to think that perhaps some day he may be able to take up the work I shall be forced to lay down!" Upon which Ella had only smiled a little faintly, while inwardly register- ing the wish that it should not be a boy. A daughter would be in many! would be more exclusively given into her own hands to be trained up in the way she would consider fit, 'It was in favorof her wish that the balance of Fate inclined, The news met John six miles from home, and under eircunist;inoes which remained in his mind for many a clay to Come., He had been out of the house for twenty-four hours, summoned to a dying woman in the wildest part of the hills. His task had been done ere nightfall, but a violent thunderstorm had kept hits prisoner all night in the distant croft. Even by daylight the smaller burns, the slippery rocks made progress slow and difficult. As he tramped through the wet heather beaten all away by the violence of the past downpour, he was thinking a good deal of Ella, and hoping that his absence would not have distressed her; but he was also thinking a good deal of the old woman whose eyes he had closed last night and of the mar- vellous way in which the Lines of care,. drawn by eighty years, had been smoothed out in a few minutes by the hand of'Death. (To be continued.) wa ys prefe rale only bees , if use she strength could he have remaining for which Elia sat apposite to him as she the real, urgent calls, if he exhausted' dispensed the roaet mutton, without himself in those purely optional ones quite realising that the increased —for this was a parish of widely scat- smartness of her appearance belonged tered crofts, and many a mile of rough, to the process known as "dressing for walking was entailed? It was for the dinner." Though unable to see the sake of his work itself that she pro- necessity of these things—and even at tested, she assured him. As for her moments uneasily aware of something own claims, she did not wish to put that jarred between them with ins them forward, though it was rather private conception of his life-task—he lonely sometimes of an evening, and never actively resisted them, partly tiresome too, to have to wait dinner at because they did not seem to him of least four times a week. Once or enough importance, and partly because twice she had hazarded a gently re- rebellion would have appeared to him proachful remark in which the word, ungrateful. Could he, to justice, re - "neglect" had been playfully inter- proach Ella with wanting to beautify polated; but he had looked at her with her home and his—with striving to so naive an astonishment that per- minister to what she took to be his force she held her tongue. And this bodily wants? Because, personally, blindness of his held good with regard he happened to be a born ascetic, to others of her wishes. Theoretical- supremely independent of creature ly, she had of course been aware of comforts, could he therefore fail to be the existence of all these humbly sit- touched by her efforts to do things uatect blood relations, but had not which she evidently considered ought doubted that they could be "kept in to please him? their place" by judicious treatment. At the end of that year the situation And so they could have been, if only might have been summed up as a What the Doctor Orders, Often the doctor will say, "Give the baby barley water. Easily said thinks the mother, but how does one make it? Or, worse still, she doesn't think at all and hurries home to cools up something that is far from the healthful thing the doctor intended. Here are a few recipes for foods fre- quently used in caring for the children. Barley Water.—Two tablespoonfuls John would hear reason. As matters mutual but not yet acute disappoint- of pearl barley, one quart of water. stood, they acted as a dead-weight to went, conscious on one side, subcons- Boil continuously fm six hours; as the soarings of social aspirations, cious on the other, and here still veil- the water boils away, add more, keep - The neighborhood of the quarries was ed by the concentration of mind on ing the quantity one quart. Strain in itself a grievous trial. What was what had remained the chief object through coarse muslin. It, is well to the good of carefully avoiding every right through the episode of marriage. soak the barley before cooking it, reference to them, when John on all To say 'that Ella had entirely cooled possible occasions, plumped out with towards her husband would be unfair. Barley Water with Prepared Flour. some reminscence of his own work Her admiration for his person per- —One tablespoonful of prepared bar- ing days? And that ubiquitous slate- sisted, but of her enthusiasm for his ley flour, twelve ounces (one and one - stone, from which there was no get- work there remained but the ashes. half cupfuls) of water. Boil twenty ting away, in the shape of door -steps The social drawbacks of her surround- minutes, and seats, and even queer, irregular Ings hopelessly outweighed the de- Oatmeal Water.—One tablespoonful palings, lust as though it took alights she had expected to draw trom 'of oatmeal blended with one table - special pleasure in provoking Ella byrtheir picturesque elements. The very spoonful of cold ..ate.. Add speck reminders of the sore subject! picturesqueness was not of the sort of salt. Stir in one quart of boiling If John, on his side, was onlywhich appealed to her, except in q indis- theory. All that rugged grandeur' water. Boil three hours, adding water riage aware of something in his mar -i `vas too high and broad—in one word, as it boils away. Strain through tions which fell ncipt ly his expecte- the too big for her personality, whether fine sieve or cheese -cloth. After the tions, it was principally because the � marriage itself had never been to him of mind or body. sixth month, either barley or oatmeal the event which it had been to Ella.' The peevish twitch of the lips began water may be used in preparing the If gradually he dropped out of the, to predominate, betraying a growing infant's food, instead of plain water. habit of discussing his work with his 1 fretfulness, The excursions in the Barley water is to be used when there wife, whom he found generally too mental balloon afore -mentioned had is looseness of the bowels, and.the oat - much occupied with domestic "im- likewise been resumed. The picture meal when the tendency is toward con- istipation. Barley Gruel.—Blend two table spoonfuls of barley flour with a little cold milk, and stir into one quart of scalded milk. Cook in double boiler two hours. Add e. little salt and sug- ar, Strain. Oatmeal Gruel.—To three cupfuls of boiling water add one-half cupful of coarse oatmeal and one-half tea- spoonful of salt. Cook five hours in double boiler. Dilute with hot milk, and strain. Farina Gruel.—One tablespoonful'of farina, one pint of water, one tea- spoonful of sugar, one-half teaspoon- ful of salt. Put into one pint of boil- ing water the salt and farina; cook for twenty minutes; strain, and add suf- ficient milk to obtain the desired con- sistency, Rice•Water. Wash two tablespoon- fuls of rice. Add one pint of cold water and a little salt. Cook one hour. Dilute with boiling water, and strain, • Toast Water, — Toast sufficient bread to make, when broken into small pieces, two cupfuls. 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Serve hot or cold. Flaxseed Tea.—Wash carefully two tablespoonfuls of whole flaxseed. Add four cupfuls of cold water (one quart). Cook slowly one hour: Add a little lemon juice and sugar. Dilute with hot water, if necessary, and strain. Plain Tapioca.—Add to one cupful of scalded milk, in double boiler, one ane one-half tablespoonfuls of gran- ulated tapioca, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, a little salt, anti a dash of nut- meg. Cook for fifteen minutes. Plain Bread Pudding.—Scald one cupful of milk. To a beaten egg add one tablespoonful of sugar and a pinch of salt. Pour on this mixture gradual- ly the scalding milk. Add one cupful of stale bread cut into half-inch cubes. Bake in buttered pudding -dish, in moderate oven, until custard is set. Serve with milk. Albuminized Milk.—Beat lcp the white of an egg till light; add a good- sized pinch of salt, four ounces of fresh sterilized milk, and sugar if desired. Beef-Juice.—Chop and broil slightly lean meat from the round. Squeeze by means of small hand -press or lemon -squeezer into a warm cup. Salt and serve immediately. One pound of round steak usually yields from two to three ounces of juice. Beef Tea.—Cut in small pieces one, TiOtird of round steak from which all fat has been removed; cover with one pint of cold water; let soak one-half hour; put into a preserve -jar, and cov er closely. The jar is placed in an- other vessel containing cold water. Heat this slowly. Cook for two or three hours, strain and season. Value of CffF se in Your Diet. Canadian women have long regard- ed cheese merely as an accessory to the diet, and not as a staple supply- ing real food value. Ht fact, most women believe cheese, when used in large quantities is indigesttible and harmful. Experts of the Department of Agri- culture have found that cheese is sel- dom a cause of physiological distur- bances, and may easily be used as the chief sodree of nitrogenous food. 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I have not only seen some personally, but have examined' official photographs of each and every ruin, and can affirm both the total and the destruction as without an iota of exaggeration, writes Hepri Bazin from Paris. By "village church" S do not mean in any instance, and therefore do not include, places of worship in townsor cities Of even relative numerical im- portance; but the simple, modest re- ligious sanctuary of. the "paysan," the farmer, the tiller of the soil ---the con- secrated house of prayer,vhere ga- thered small congregations within 327 areas of from one to twenty kilo- meters—about 327 centres. Modest Village Churches. these 827 village chtiohes were mo- a est and without renown. Yet they were quaintly beautiful, in great part of ancient pious usage,\ devoted in many instances for threecenturies to the constant worship of God. They were quiet sanctuaries, containing family records, records of birth, bap- tism, marriage and death, the ex- votos of gratitude, commemorations of festival and sorrow, the stories in the life history 01 generation after generation of pie same line; far all over lovely France there are families living where their ancestors settled centuries before, _The Angelus Will Sound No More. The bell in its tower had sounded a the Angelus, from a "great while since," the Angelus heard afar in beet- field and vineyard, waited for as a daily part of many a simple, beauti- ful, pious life, when the laborer, hoe in hand, ceased toil for a moment, made the sign of the cross, and bow- ed head in prayer. He had been bap- tized beneath the tower in which it hung, it had rung his marriage peal, it would toll at his burial as it had for his father's before him, as it would for his children after him. There is not a province in northern France that has not been desecrated and sacrileged. No Church -is Spared. With these unnamed churches, as all who read know, have been destroy- ed more pretentious places of worship in towns and minor cities; the mighty cathedral of Arras, of which Victor Hugo has written, "It is the most beautiful and wonderful example of the Flemish -Spanish architecture of the thirteenth century"; the cathedral of Semlis, the most lovely of smaller Gothic specimens; the cathedral of Soissons, a marvel of the Renaissance, to choose but three of the many within the line of barbarity's invasion and re- treat. No house of God is intact that touched its paths of evil, There re- mains to it but the completion from afar, of the destruction of the cathe- dral of Rheims. The Torture of Rheims. If they choose; the Germans could demolish Rheims cathedral to -morrow. Thirty shells a minute for even a lit- tle while would crumble all that is left of this most noble of Gothic monu- ments. But they choose instead the systematic deliberate dropping now and then of a shell upon the north and south fronts and buttresses. They never bombard any other portion of the city of Rheims. And they never allow a week to pass without shelling the wounded cathedral; some weeks -many and some weeks few; one at a time always, one a day or one in seven days, well placed and truly aimed. As constant water will wear away rock, so constant periodical shell will eventually wear clown the grievously (arred but still standing towers and trellised walls and buttresses. When tho-final straw of strain comes the cathedral of Rheims will fall, Tho world will read of its :foiling, when, as with a great sigh, a sigh reaching into the heavens and across the ages, this most glorious house of God crumbles and crashes to the company of ruin about it. "The evil that men do lives after them." 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