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Zurich Herald, 1919-01-17, Page 7to Washing Without Worrying. Next to high prices as at topic for - conversation, the seareity of labor takes rank. Competent farm labor, always hard to secure, has about reached the vanishing point so far as the fields are concerned and the housekeeper leo longer even dreams of getting her washing done, to say nothing securing other help.. The work is all up to the house -mother and she must "live or die, sink or aawim, `survive or ,perish," unaided by human hands. The situation in the cities is the same. Employment bureau:, long ago hung out the '"No Domestic Help" sign. There are no girls seek- ing domestic employment, with fac- tories offering three tinier the wages. Housekeepers in the towns have for some time been facing the situation and adjusting their lives to the change. Their solution of the ques- tion is one which many farm women can adopt—power appliances to do much of the work formerly done by hand; 11?otor power washing ma- chines have forever supplanted the washwoman in hundreds of homes. They are always on the job, never late, quiet, efficient, courteous if treated welt, never demand a ten o'clock lunch, and don't tear the clothes. The electric machine is perhaps most convenient if you have electric power, but it is by no means the only thing. There are water power machines, dog power machines, a working out of the old familiar treadmill, where your household pet furnishes the power which does your washing, and machines -Which are run by the gas engine. As to types of machines, they are legion. The best known are the cylinder machines where clothes are put in a cylinder which revolves through a tub of hot suds. Whatever the type or whatever the power employed, the power machine is something which every woman who can afford it should buy. The wringer is also operated by the sante power hieh washes the clothes so th, :he with rinsing wa er and lines got ready. You will not sit down while the washing is on. Also, if the clothes wind around the wringer. or you try to put too thick a• garment through—well, your machine is like- ly to stop in the middle of the wash- ing, and.you must wait for someone who Understands :ite internal' work- ings to sot it going. Care in feed- ing the wringer makes this unneces- sary, however. And, to boil or not to boil, is another question. Most agents say it is not necessary—that good soap powder, scalding water and sun are all you need. Personally, I prefer boiling. Wristbands and soiled' spots do not need to be rubbed on the board if you use sufficient care. Soap all these spots carefully and let the clothes soak over night. If the spots show when they come out • of the tub, soap them again and wash a second time. Only on rare occasions will you need to rub them. yw .r tune. Could you for instan* wash nineteen blankets in the old way in one forenoon and go to a pic- nle in the afternoon? This is what elle farm woman • did. Another on the sante day did a two weeks' wash- ing for a fancily of six, and throw in two Blankets and the curtains for twenty windows, then baked and put up her picnic lunch, and was as fresh ae a daisy in the afternoon. The machhie Cannot perform mira- cles, however. Do not think for a m,irncte that they are going to do the washing while you sit upstairs and read a beak, as the advertisements picture the pretty lady. They arc like nay machine—they must be op- erated. p- sr a tecl. Starch must be made, clothes fctt to the wringer, tubs filled Thrift Recipes. Leftover Beans. -1 cup beans, is : cup stewed tomato. Salt and pep- per and a teaspoon of grated onion. Heat thoroughly. The onion and tomato should be cooked for ten mid' nutes before the beans are added. Vegetable Hash.—Mix together and heat in a frying pan, with a little wa- ter or milk and a small quantity of at and seasonings -2 cups dice ooked potatoes, 1 cup diced Cooke arrots, 1 cup • diced cooked turnips is cup grated cheese. Escalloped. Carrots. -2 cups grat d carrots, 1 cup bread crumbs, 2 cu milk. 1-8 cup grated cheese, 1 table poen fat, 1/2teaspoon salt, pepper o taste. Cook the.grated carrots n a double boiler until tender. Add alt, pepper, and milk and cook foi ve minutes. Place in a baking dish, prinkle with grated cheese, cover iter the crumbs to which has been dded the melted fat. Brown in the vera. Corn and Cheese. -2 cups corn, 1 up celery, 1 cup buttered crumbs, 1 easpoon salt, 2 tablespoons fat, 1 up hot milk. Arrange corn and celery in layers with salt. Add hot ilk and melted fat. Cover with tattered crumbs and bake 20 minutes, Warmed Over Beans With Cheese. Make a cup of white sauce and add vo tablespoons of grated cheese. ild the sauce to the beans and heat eoroughly. This is a good sub-. itute for meat. Cod en Casserole.—To prepare this sh take a one and a half pound, slice cod and remove the skin. Place in a cesscrole of ample size and our in half a pint of boiling stock. over and bring to a boil again. Then ok quite gently forabout an hour d thirty minutes. Strain off the ock. Add a quarter of a pint of ewed Spanish onion and tomato fixed, salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar d a dust of cayenne. Heat, stir 11, pour over the fish and serve. f c c e s t s fie w a 0 c t 0 b is A ti st di of it p C co an st st m an we d d. P • IRON CROSSES OF GFRMAN FLEEFLEET S'T'ORED AS LEFT .LGt;GAGE BY 'rill', BRITISH '.CARS Sonic+ ,Sidelights on the Surrender of the Iiun Navy -•-Queen Mary Is Popular With Beatty's Crews. Even after all the tales are told, especially- such a great historic event as the ser•render of the German fleet, there i;, something more to tell, There are the sidelights, It has not yet been told, so far as I know, how Queen Mary won tre- mendotts respect from the fleet, one of \'vho3C mottos is "thorough," for the thoroughness with which she in- sists: on seeing things. Every one who lags been on a battleship knows that getting into a gent turret is a matter of no mean gymnastics. The Queen, .tviatle she was on the cont- anander.ii chief's flagship, climbed ,into the iureet of one of the wonder- ful .13 -inch guns and was enormously interested be- the miracle of mechan- ism, She went to the wireless room and happened to hear a message front the commander-in-chief to the Ger- melts, telling them in a somewhat peremptory manner that if they could not; send all the submarine torpedoes Minus their battle -heads, as had been arranged, they must send them in transports to be provided for the purpose, Photographing the Chiefs. 1 When Icing George and the Prince • of Wales went aboard the American flagship New York the royal standard and the Stars and Stripes were flown together for the first time I believe in history from the masthead of an American battleship. When the King and Admirals Sims and Rodman were asked after lunch to pose for their photographs there was a humorous argument as to who should stand in the middle. The King was not fur it at all. As they came out of the cabin..where there had been a con- siderable amount of conversation, Ad- miral Rodman caught sight of the cinema operator preparing for his picture, and said, "There you are, sir, We have talking machines inside and the movies outside." Some interesting sidelights of the German submarine surrender off Harwich are to hand from a corres- pondent who was otn the destroyer 3 telampus, ";Can you take any more Germans?" was a signal the commander read from the signal pad as he sat in his cabin. "Reply, `Yes,' " he said, re- turning the pad to the signalman.` Some one remarked, "I wonder if such_ a signal was ever received before in the British Navy?" It was one of the many unpre- tl talented signals of the day. The Ger- t man submarines that are now moored e i' r ' 1 in Harwich. ltatlat had in the past . made many unprecedented signals to h merchant ships. German submarines,. P hoists of flags. Even that seemed to A SEA SECRET REVEALED A.LED e give difficulty to the submarine rnezi, CANADIAN WAR 0. and on board -with the�avordssion awrlttgen bon l t Shoe ice the Immortal Spirit of the ; �.t c EXHIBIT was dirplsyed, j3t'rtish Natty. PICTURES Velvet Collars Puzzle to British, There was mueh puzzlement on the British destroyers about the velvet collar bands and hatbands which some of the German officers wore. To English eyes nothing could seem less sailor -like than velvet at sea. It was like wearing spurs. One offieer woic°e a large bearskin hat like an Arctic explorer. They all wore gloves and were very well shod. Many of the men had leather suits in goecl repair. The Nate' bights to render up its secrets to the curious eyes of the civilian, says the London 'Times. The "Q" boat Suffolk Coast has reached St. .boat Dock, and the public will be allowed to go over her, at the price of a small fee for the benefit of naval ohoritiec. Isere eoutrivanees fur deception Hied with deadliness will surely nterest and instruct crowds so long is she is in the Thames. But she a deeper fascination than that, r within her lurks the newest in- rnation of the immortal spirit of e Navy. In the spring of 1917 hen the U-boats began to sink ton- ge at a deadly rate, the Navy tttrn- o devise defences against the w danger. The "Q" boats were an [portant part of them, eritbodiments the adaptability and ingenuity of Sea Service. But the heart of it sur„cess was not in their impene- ble disguises. ellen clamored to be cryved to go to sea in them. To go sea in them meant the luring of Ii -boat by an elaborate pretence defencelessness; endurance of shell, + and even of being torpedoed; long iting motionless, in a sinking ship, the U-boat commander should at t be certain that his victim bad sting and should expose his craft certain destruction. For this the cers anis men of the Navy scramhl- in riot rivalrg. Through this they nt, and, having gone, went eagerly ain. Their ships were sunk ander m, but they cared not at all, so e the U-boats were destroyed. The Suffolk Coast herself is a ship wly converted to this service, but est of her crew have served with. eir commander is three of these pecial service” ships. The immedi- e predecessor of the Suffolk Coast the Stook Force—sank under her •ew when they had waited fifty min- es after being torpedoed for the ranee of sinking the U-boat that warded them at last. The story s been told. The men of other "Q" ata were not so fortunate, They sappearecl and left no trace. The a that robbed them of their reward lds immortal their unavailing valor. hese are the chances of Sea Service. he spirit o£ the men who took them ith delight—that spirit has wrought fety for the world of modern men. as 'a'[ ART OF ABDICATION em e• is "Men," he said in that abrupt, inci- sive way of his, biting his words, "they're coming out. I always said they would." A week later he repeat- ed the same address. On the day of the great surrender he again address- ed his tars. "Men," he began, "I al- ways told you they'd come out. , Not on a piece of string, though!" The High Seas Fleet on a piece of string! Was the thing ever better ex- pressed? Iii all this wide war no more dramatic day than November 21 has passed as by. The spectacular side, great grey ships steaming, in bat- tle array, meant nought—ordinary ntanoeuvres. It wasn't the ships that mattered, but the men in then. For people who like to play with human emotions it was an unraturning orgy. The Huns who so arrogantly goose-stepped across the bodies of outraged women—four years ago—in the waters of the Firth of Forth, now cringed to heel like a dog with its tail between its, legs. "To think we've waited all these years to fight them," ruminated a Bri- tish admiral, "and now to have to go out and meet then by appointment, like meeting a girl ---only they'll be punctual ! " ,, Admiral Beatty know all about that. He is a disgusted, disappointed man, and his every gesture has emphasized tate fact. He was out to humiliate the Ilan, to make him eat worms. In all his messages you will detect a virile undercurrent of contempt. To dis- honor the sea by murder was bad enough; to follow up with cowardice ---only Germans could do that; rank materialists reasoning: "Is it going to serve any useful purpose if we come out?" and deciding in the negative. Beaten bullies with a moral kink. Beatty knew all that and acted ac- cordingly. Icy courtesy, Granite tirnmess. Contempt. Coal on the Prairies. .According to estimates prepared by experts there is enough soft coal in to four Western Provinces of Canada o supply the world for a couple of euturies. The mines of Saskatchew- in .Alberta er to enc t British Columbia. are scarcely been tapped, but have roduced a totale n one year of 6,000,- 000 tons, to the value of over 25 mil- lion dollars. The coal is of very good grade, and is equally serviceable for steam purposes and household heat- ing. The Canadian Dominion geologi- cal survey has estimated that the coal beds contain a total of 143,490,000;000 arra, covering an area of 87,400 quare miles. 1 had given many signals, but had paid entail attention to surface sigtnals ad- dressed to them. Consequently there was considerable difficulty in coni- munication on the occasion of their surrender. They could not under- stand the 1vturse code that was used, so instructions were gii-en to them in I t the slow way of international code by 4 There Are Many Instances of Royalty Who Quit Their Thrones. History affords Ring Ferdinand of Bulgaria many precedents in the art of abdication, but few have ever resigned their thrones except under compulsion. • The most remarkable voluntary ab- dication on record is that of Chris- tina of Sweden, daughter and suc- cessor of the great Gustavus Adol- phus. Growing tired, at the age of 28, 'of the restraints imposed on her by her high office, she resigned in favor of her cousin and. went to Rome, which city she entered in the ' costume of an Amazon, Latter she settled in Paris. The desire to resign seems to have returned in later years, for she tried to recover her own kingdom and made a bid for the throne of Poland. But even kings who abdicate by their own choice are not always al- lowed to enjoy ,freedom from the ; burdens of government. Philip V., the founder 3f the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, was a noivous and gloomy man, much tormented by religious scruples, and he found life as Ring of -Spain intolerable. At the age of 40, and in the 24th year of his reign, in order to look after "the affairs of his. soul," he resigned the crown of Spain and the Indies in favor of his eldest son, Don Luis, who was at that time only 16 years of age. But the peace that Ring Philip had hoped for lasted barely seven months. The young king was at- tacked by smallpox, and died at the end of that period. Before his death, however, he had made an act of re- trocession of the crown to his father, who for another 22 years bore unwil- lingly the heavy load of 'kingship which he had so unsuccessfully at- tempted to throw off. The Berlin Ghost. Is the "White Lady" walking these momentous night in the Palace of Berlin? Always, says tradition, when a Hohenzollern is to die or some catastrophe is overshadowing the ' family, the "Seine Dante" is to "be encountered in the corridors of the Royal Palace, and more than once she has been known to speak and an.. nounce the coming doom. One can imagine the White Lady'e riatisfac- tion in her task, for in real lite --so the story goes ---she was the Countess A.gneS of Oriatnunde, \how a former Hohenzollern had bricked iii alive in • a vault. • ARTISTS HAVE i-rCoWED OUR PART IN CONFLICT. Care of The Month. There is no question of the fact .hat people nowadays grow old more Every Phase of Canada's War Activity slowly than used to be the case, and From Start to Finish their health :in the later years of is Depicted, life is much better than formely. 1)c%nlieg with the exhibition 02 Cana diad war pie -twee whicth opened et tI, Royal Araderny of Arts, London, ni January 4, a rotrtributer to th« Pal Mall Gazette says it. Was a unique spectacle, of a. nation'.; euprenis cal deavor purtrlc,yed. net i.t retaosneet. but during it .acco'npiir.-nl,enl. ht her artists. The 70 heading Paintel:e or Canada, including some famine Hriti;h cines, have risen gloriously to the task set by their Governuicnt when it took theta out to than trF,t,t b 's fn t i ..ic.e and I`latildere. B'l'unt the i.tndin. f, the 'awn 33,000 en at Plymouth to the tequilas pof Mons.. on the lust dee: of tate war, iso phase of Canada's war activity bas been neglected. Thede are nearly 100 paintings Blue - tasting the wrote!.wrote!.of the' C'anae•lion Corps in France, luchtiiing the magni- ficent paintings of the landing of the 3rd Canadian Brigade at St. Nazeire, by Edgar Bandy, A.It.A., and the giatit canvas by _Major Richard Jot& A.ft..-e.. "The Second Battle of Ypres." Major Jock has also a fine painting of "The Battle of Vimy Ridge." In the flame way the historic Canadian battles are dealt with each in their turn. Regina Trench, the taking of Courcelette and so on, and then the Arras-Carnbrai road is shown, along which the Cana- dians are seen streaming after three months of incessant battle to the bit- ter fight for Canibrai, whence they passed to their last engagement which culminated in the triumphal entry into Mons. It .is a phenomenon with which the better condition of their teeth has undoubtedly much to do. Rheums- ,. taami, for instance, is by no mean; so common an affliction as it was fifty year's or more ago. One theory alter another as to the cause of Ammo.- tiara lase been exploded—the latest to depart being the "uric acid" absurdi- ty—and to -slat we positively know that this distressing Malady is Ate - imitable to gerin3 originating in un- healthy mouths, and which, finding their way into the bloodstream, reac'b the joints, multiply and set up inflammation. With a view to the protection and .future weifam of the riving and sub- sequent generation of children, it is highly desirable that their mouths should receive early attention. It is, indeed, a mutter no less important than their education. 1 Seme day there will be in every city and en -liege a municipal dental hospital maintained for this purpose ----not only to look after the teeth of 'every school child but to.see that the mouth of each boy and girl is in oth- er respects (as regards tonsils, ade- noids, etc.) in a healthy state. The treatment should cover the 1 whole of oral hygiene, including the nose and throat—the fundamental idea being than an unhealthy mouth (the breathing passages included) is • a germ factory. Diseased tonsils are the usual cause of rheumatic fever in children, and the only proper thing to do is to extirpate them. Teeth can he straightened, mouth - arches widened', and jaws put into shape. Such things are 'easily ac- complished with very young people, giving them a .prospect of better looks as well as better health later in life . Germs breeding in an unhealthy mouth excrete poisonous products (called "toxins"), which, being swaI- Iowed, may -give rise to chronic dys- pepsia. But the maladies that may be engendered by decayed teeth are nun Many Beautiful Portraits. Apart from the actual fighting, how- evel, the paintings give a comprehen- sive view of every other phase of Canadian war activity overseas, the Forestry Corps, which has provided timber for the armies of four nations; the famous Railway troops, which, of- ten worked desperately under a de- vastating lire, have contributed so much to victory; the Veterinary Corps, which has charge of three million ster- ling worth of animals; the hospitals and even the patrol boats in the '' Iish Channel, some of which were manned exclusively by Canadian crews. There is a splendid collection of portraits, interesting personalities suck as Sir Robert Borden, Sir George Pellet•, Princess Patricia. of Connaught anti Lady Drunmon.ci, who labored so unceasingly for the Canadian Red Cross. There are also portraits of many members of the Canadian high command and a whole, gallery of Canadians who have won the Victoria Cross. All yellow flame on the gas range is practically wasted. HIRAM JOHNSON, LTD. 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Ali, yes; the French surprise us con- stantly; A something itt their spirit is so ine: I was in Paris when the famous Line Went through after Verdun, and so could see Ilow a whole people. putting by cares, Came crowding to the well -loved titen•- onghfares To view the igen—not alt eiet all, alas! --- Who, in a fateful hour of fear incl wine, Stood as a wail defensive 'gainst the foe. And said: --They shall not pass: How surely these had saved her .':tris lcnew— Ileroes who fronting Death turned net aside! Her heart beat faster as they near; r drew. And swelled with unimagined 1+.;;•:' pride. Artillery and cavalry- went bye-- , The y,- - The plauditsof the people reectced .'.:> sky! • 1111i for the infantry—At sillt. of these, ..poignant silence fell upon the crowd: r reverence the people'e boucle were bowed, nd they were on their kitcee. 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