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Zurich Herald, 1915-09-03, Page 6NOTES AND COMMENTS The world stands aghast at the pen- alty which Europe pays in human life for this unspeakable war. The price Which it is paying in money, and will continue to pay for perhaps a cell- tury, is almost beyond calculation. Na since Napoleon's day have Euro- pean Government bonds been in such a Panicky condition as they are to- daY. England fixes by edict a mini- rnum of 65 for its consols, without which -edict they would fall much be- low that point, The old war loan is selling below par. French three per cent, rentes are quoted around 70, and this, like the quotation for Brit- ish consols, is largely artificial. Rus- sian bonds are even weaker than those of its allies. ch elle eb re dt ur G Ba ka of ven e Bank of England even to- r°n: :ll any of its own notes a ; ueh is "nerthe ease in many] where the note circulation ex- eeeds.metal reserves by hundreds of millions. Germany, being .cut off from all trade with the outside world, has no means of recuperating. with foreign commerce her' dwindling ex- chequer: She must live upon herself, and consequently is paying her own people for her war supplies and—ora- aerials in paper money, the volume of which has already reached colossal proportions. Germans contend that when the war is over this will have proved an .advantage to the German people since the Government will owe none but themselves. All debts will be local debts, and all payments will re- main within the empire. But what if Germany loses and is taxed as France was taxed forty-five years ago to pay an-enermous war indemnity? Would Gernaai y still be able to cancel such a foreign obligation, and at the same time retire the billions of paper money :r -which is now in process of creation ? BLOCKADE'S PINCH FELT. Bankruptcies Increase Uneasiness in But the Teutonic Zweibund is in a mu worse position financially than its mies. German three per cents. hav een selling i:i the fifties, while the is no buying whatever of Aus- triais bonds. Both countries are ob- lige. to finance the war from domestic reso ces, and they are doing it with a volume of "shin -plasters that poi - tends a fearful reckoning later on, The overnment of Germany compels the nk of Germany to accept war n loannotes as legal tender, and the ban ctually uses such notes as a part its reserve. These notes are covered red by a gold reserve, so that a vast pyramid of paper money is being erected without: adequate gold ore silver protection behind it. About the Household Good Corn Recipes. Boiled Corn.—Strip off coarser out- er husks leaving the thin silky envel- ope next the earon the stalk. Pull this down and •pick off the silk from between the grains, adjust the inner husks in their. place, tie together at the top and drop the ears in plenty of boiling salted water. Boil half a hour and leave in hot water unti ready to serve. Cut stalks off wi the husks close to the bottom of th ears and send to table wrapped abou with a napkin on a flt dish. Green Corn Fritters,—Grate o shave off with a keen blade the grains from 6 ears of corn. Have ready 2 eggs beaten' light, a cup of milk added to these with a tablespoenful,of sugar and same quantity of butter'warmed and rubbed into a heaping tablespoon- ful of prepared flour. " Season with salt and pepper; beat hard' and fry as you would griddle cakes. Chopped Potatoes and Corn.—When cold boiled potatoes and several' ears of boiled corn' are left in the icebox, chop the one into coarse dice and cut the other from the cob. Heat in a frying pan a ,good spoonful of clari- fied dripping, street and good, and stir into this the potatoes and corn, sea- soning with" salt and pepper. Turn and turn until thoroughly heated and serve. This remakes a nice breakfast day i relish. Or heat a cup of milk, stir in in a good spoonful of butter, then mix G er- ed in a respectable newspaper should prove it worth buying by soaiebody. Should any foreign •matter. alight in the eye' immediately apply elle or two drops of castor oil; it' will almost at once'allay the"irritation. Grass .stains will disappear.' if coal oil is poured on them,, then rub with n the hands and wash same as you al - 1: ways do. Lard rubbed in well before th I goods are wet will remove axle grease e or machine grease. t To separate the yolk of an egg from the white make a hole in both • ends of the egg. Then hold it up- right, giving it a gentle ,shake, and the white will ripe'. out, leaving the I yolk unbroken in the shell. 1 If when sending or taking a hat by train it is secured to the bottom of. !the box by a few strong stitches of :thread the most delicate hat will not be crushed, as no matter how the box is turned about the hat will not move. It is always wise to boil a new clothesline before using it, as this not only prevents it from stretching Ibut makes it last much longer. New pegs should be soaked in cold water for a few hours, as this keeps „them from splitting. Very often .when making a pie the juice from the fruit soaks through the undercrust and spoils the whole ap- pearance of it. To prevent this try brushing the crust over with the white of an egg, and you Will never be troubled in this way. When your vegetables become wilt- ed and stale before you have an op- portunity to use them place them for an hour or so. in 'a gallon of water to which a teaspoonful of soda has been added. They 'will • then be just as crisp and fresh as when gathered from the garden. Germany. A citizen of a neutral State who lately visited Germany in a further communication to the London Daily Chronicle dealing with the position of industry in Germany, says: "It would be quite wrong to imag- ne that after the blockade of Ger- man ports '"all manufactories were stopped. Practically the whole of the machine industry, iron foundries and steel works are fully employed and doing excellent business. They do not suffer from any lack of raw material, as the whole of the ore reserves of Sweden are at their disposal. In ad- dition to this, they can tap their own ores in the Diedenhofen and Saar dis- tricts and the ores of Luxemburg and Longwy in France. "So far as coal is concerned, the mines which used to compete success- fully in the markets of Scandinavia, Italy, France, Egypt, Denmark and Russia with English coal have suffer- ed heavily. After the war broke out nearly all these mines came to a standstill, chiefly owing to a short- age of labor; but there has been a gradual revival and the output now is about half the normal. "The textile industries of the "em- pire have until July managed to keep up to something like their normal level. There has been a decrease , in exportation, but the home demand for textiles has been very good, owing to the total cessation of imports of foreign descriptions, but since August 1 the manufacture of all goods from cotton yarn has been prohibited in view of the probable declaration of cotton as contrabrand of war. , "Since August 1 only orders for the army have been allowed to be execut- ed, but this will not give employment to one-tenth of the great body of tex- tile operatives, and the greater part of the factories have been brought to a standstill. "One industry which has suffered acutely is the manufacturer of toys in and around Nuremberg and Thurin- gia. "The complete stoppage of German exports only dates as far back as May 15 or even June 1. Now, how- ever, a number of bankruptcies are advancing considerably the great un- easiness spreading in industrial circles more so because the hopes of America bringing pressure to bear upon the English Government to relax the blockade have vanished." an potatoes ana corn; season, simmer five minutes, and serve. Green Corn Pudding. -Six ears of green corn, full grown but tender, 2 cups of mills, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful butter, 1 tablespoonful sugar. Salt and pepper to taste. Cream butter and sugar is for. cake. Beat into the eggs when whipped light, add milk and the grated corn (or shaved). Sea- son, beat thoroughly and bake cover- ed in a buttered casserole or pudding dish 40 minutes; then .uncover and brown. Serve at once in the same dish. Succotash.—Six ears of corn, 1 cup shelled lima or string beans carefully trimmed into inch lengths, Y2 cup milk, 2 teaspoonfuls of butter cut up i into 1 teaspoon of flour. Salt and i pepper. Cut the corn from the cob and add to the beans when they have cooked half an hour in boiling water slightly salted. Boil thirty minutes longer, turn off the water and pour in the milk. (It is safer in warm weather to add a tiny pinch of bread soda). As the milk heats, stir in the floured butter, season, and simmer ten minutes. If canned corn and Seasonable Dishes. Peach Ice Cream.—Soak' two cup- fuls' of sliced peaches for about one hour and put through colander. Add to one quart of cream which has been scalded and cooled. Freeze. Cauliflower.—Cut stalks close to flower, remove green leaves and soak n cold salted water one hour. Cook n cheesecloth bag thirty to forty minutes. Remove from bag and serve with Hollandaise or whitesauce or scalloped -` with white ' sauce and crumbs. .»epa: Consomme Renaissance, — Press half a cup of cooked and drained spinach through a s'eve, add a table: spoonful of melted butter, one table- spoonful of cream, two beaten eggs, beans are used, add half a teaspoon- o ful of white sugar. Canned Corn Fritters.—Canned corn while only a poor substitute for the fresh ear may be very appetizing if chopped fine after the corn has been emptied from the can and allowed to stand for several hours before using. Drain dry and mince, then proceed as with the fresh grains. Corn Soup.—Cook six ears of corn in cold water twenty minutes. Cut off the cob and press through a sieve. Add two cups of 'scalded milk. Cook two tablespoons of chopped onion in three tablespoons of butter, add three tablespoons flour, one and a half salt, celery salt and cayenne, corn mixture, cook five minutes, strain, add one cup of beaten cream and serve. Garnish with one cup pop- ped corn. Things Worth Knowing. To skin sausages quickly and eas- ily immerse them for a second or two in cold water. Make starch with soapy water, add- ing a pinch of borax. A very hot iron should never be used for flannels or woollens. Soap should be substituted forsoda when washing silver and plated goods. New brick floors should be washed with soda water, and when dry rub- bed with parafin. Don't black a stove while it is hot. It takes more blacklead, and a much longer time to polish, When boiling potatoes do not add salt till they are nearly cooked. This makes them dry and floury. Borax for washing plates and dishes is to be preferred to soda, as it does not crack the skin of the hands. The fact that an article is advertis- ne-fourth .teaspoonful of salt and ne-fourth teaspoonful of pepper; mix'• thoroughly and turn into a small but- tered mold. Let cook in the oven on several folds of paper surrounded with boiling water until firm. When cold cut in cubes. Cut a pared carrot and turnip in half-inch cubes. Cook separately until tender. Drain. Serve the cubes of spinach -custard, turnip and carrot in one quart of consomme. Southern Peach Pie.—Line a pie plate with crust as for lemon pie and fill with sliced peaches. Sprinkle su- gar and cinnamon over the top, bake and serve with whipped cream. To make the -crust chop four tablespoons of lard into one and a half cups of flour; when thoroughly mixed add one-half teaspoon salt and cold water enough to form dough. Chill, roll in rectangular piece, place four table- spoons of butter which previously has been shaped, flattened and chilled on middle on one side of paste, fold over other side, press edges together and fold one end under and one end over butter making six layers. Roll again into rectangle, fold in same way and so continue three times. If butter - begins to soften, roll paste in cheese cloth and place on ice until hard enough to roll easily. Be careful not to wet the cheese cloth. WHERE PIGS CLIMB' TREES. The Tree Trunk Is Broad, Flat and Almost Horizontal. Presumably the walrus and the car- penter never did settle the discussion as to whether pigs had wings, and there are persons who seriously think it was a foolish theme for an argu- ment. - And yet is it any stranger than the undisputed fact that. in Morocco pigs climb trees in search of nuts? Not only pigs but goats too. The puzzle is not in the.. pigs and the goats, how- ever; they are of the common variety that we see in the back lots in our own communities. ' It is' the tree that is strange. Itis called the argan nut tree and'it grows near Agadir. Usual- ly it shoots out from. ,a steep hillside. The trunk is broad and flat and al- most horizontal, and so are the main branches, forming ample and solid foothold for any animal which may be tempted by the olive shaped nuts growing wiiihin easy reach of the main branches. The largest room in :the world is the room for improvement, NEW BRITISH M.P. Recalls the Cases of Boys in Briti Parliament, Sir Edward Coke, the great lawy of the sixteenth century, held that th law required a man to be of age b fore he could be elected to, or sit i Parliament, and though Mr. .Joh Lymbrick Edmonde, the new Britis member of Parliament, has just pass ed the age limit, being little over 2 years of age, his election calls .atten tion to the fact that boys in thei ''teens have been elected to Pariiamen in the past. Already known as "the child of .th House," Mr. Esmonde, Nationales member for North Tipperary, is ser tainly the most youthful-lookin member who has ever entered th House of Commons of late years From the vantage point of the Stran gers' Gallery, as She walked rap the floor to take the oath, he looked scarcely sixteen. He was an attrac- tive figure in his khaki uniform he is a lieutenant in the 27th Northum- berland Fusiliers—and everyone gave him a cheer. Charles James Fox was perhaps the most famous boy M.P. He was returned for Midhurst when he was only 19, in spite of the law, and jus- tified his election, for Horace Wal- pole, after hearing him speak, said: Fox, ox, not yet one -and -twenty, answered Burke with great quickness and parts, and with confidence equally premature." Lord John Russell, who afterwars became Earl Russell, began, accord- ing to his biographers, at the age of one -and -twenty, a career in the House of Commons that was destined to last for nearly 50 years, while others say that he was one one -and -twenty when he was elected. According to a chronicler in the days of James I., at least 40 members of the House of Commons were not above 20 years of age, and some of them were not more than 16. Ed- mund Waller, the poet, was one of these ' 16 -year-old M.P.'s, and his re- cord as a member would be hard to beat, for it is said of him that "Wal- ler was the delight of the House, and even at 80 he said the liveliest things - of any among them." Lord Chesterfield, when he was Lord Stanhope, entered Parliament before he was of age, and made a fiery attack on the Orford Ministry sh er e e- n, n 1 t e t g e • • The occupants of the Treasury Bench retorted by pointing out that in tak- ing his seat when a minor he was liable toa penalty of $1,500, whereat the • noble youth left the House until he was of age. It is said that Lord Torrington, who afterwards became the Duke of Albermarle, addressed the House on Clarendon's impeach- ment when he was only 14, which must surely be the record for pre- cocity. e. tl� k. �,,," °xr� ,w �3y-stns :: ,?`' • �1r „aremere,e,e i mower_, ry .",4'. *.,' ,rr..-- .0 are tier OttirdA ""''wa'!d',�a" """✓%.. ......"°. ,x' .-, < •.N:rd x:1,44" nr"' n,.. w 9-x ft L:r �..-.L-'•'ro'Ow.Y •. ..,s.^�a,^:o�,b'�t ...^.y�+�-.r m: d•.,.<;t,"'.t'S'.�*?'64s�YJf'k1�5"��+ PUMPING IT OUT Fi'om The New York World.' ASQUITH'S ABILITY. Offered Sixteen Seats Before He Stood for East Fife. At the City of London School Pre- mier Asquith is best remembered as a quiet, studious boy who did not care for games, but preferred to spend his dinner hour reading the Times. It was the master of Balliol who re- marked, "Asquith will get on, he is so direct." And after' a brilliant career at that college, Mr. Asquith was call- ed to the bar in 1876, and became a Q.C. in 1890. Four years previously he had entered Parliament as M.P. for East Fife, Scotland, which he has always represented since. It is a fact not generally known, by the way, that both Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and Mr. Gladstone were so. impressed by Mr. Asquith's abili- ties that he was offered 16 different seats before he finally accepted the invitation to stand for East Fife. Although in public life, somewhat cold and austere, Mr. Asquith in pri- vate life is the most genial of men, Like Mrs. Asquith, whom he married in 1894, his first wife having died three years previously, the Premier seeks relaxation in golf. He has two daughters—the elder of whom, Miss Violet Asquith, has just become en- gaged to Mr. Maurice Bonham -Carter, Mr. Asquith's private secretary—and five sons, four of whom are nerving their country in the great war. Dogs Know German Shells. A letter from Rheims, France, says: "Dogs distinguish the whistle of German shells perfectly. As soon as they hear them, even when our. own are whistling at the sane time and people do not know which is which, the dogs show their terror in one way or. another. They moan, run for shelter, go down to the cellar, and come up again if their masters have not followed them. A eat, which is let down in a basket in case of dan- ger, gets into it itself as soon as the whistle of an 'enemy's shell is heard. But the birds, sparrows, chaffinches;`- goldfinches, &c., are not in the least perturbed by cannonading. And the owls continue their usual hooting." Some comets have tails as much as 200,000 miles in length. Husband—I don't see why you have accounts in so many different stores. Wife—Because, my dear, it makes the bills so much smaller. rt O 0• 0 01111 Iillhl1 l[�MlIWI tT1 III A/•,•,,�.,.di/i ki' j:s;Z $ta�thkiPti wX?"� rot , ,a Msttlx-, teWHEN I pay for good fruit, and spend a lot of time over it, I want to be sure that my jellies and preserves will be just right. So I always use No doubt that is just what her mother and grandmother did, too, for ; t. ,.,„ has been Canada's favorite sugar for three generations. Absolutely pure, and always the same, it has for sixty years proved the most" dependable for preserving, canning and jelly -making. It is just as easy to get the best—and well worth while. So tell your grocer it must be ogWr, Sugar, in one of the packages originated in Canada for !„ ",,,' Sugar. 2 and 5 lb. Sealed Cartons. ter 10, 20, 50 and 100 lb, Bags. • CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED, Sweeten it.' 149 MONTREAL. °4a�` �'"'',1 J'