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Zurich Herald, 1916-09-01, Page 7NOTES AND RD CO1'/aNIA. N l V At the beginning of the war, when Germany secured the alliance of Tur- key, she threatened the worbi with the proclamation of a holy war, which was the terror of the world in the Middle Ages. The Sultan of Turkey. was to proclaim this holy war, which would spelllimitless disaster to Great Britain in India, Egypt and Asia Min- or, to Italy and France in Africa and awful things to the Christians wher- ever the Turks could reach them. The Sultan's irad fell flat. Now Turkey is menaced by a holy war, which will undoubtedly disintegrate the empire still more. When the Turks acquired their im- mense dominance over Asia Minor, Africa and the greater part of Eu- rope, they took the headship of the Mahometan religion away from the ancient holy places of Mecca and Bag- dad and transferred it to Constanti- nople. The Sultan of Turkey was declared the head of all True Believ- ers, and faithful Mahometans were required to pay all faith and allegi- ance to the Sultan. The Arabs and other Mahometans in Asia Minor re- sented this arrogance, but were help- less. Now, after centuries of subservi- ence, they find their opportunities for freedom, and the Sherif of Mecca, whom they regard as the legitimate descendant of Mahomeb, has organiz- ed a very successful rebellion, and in which all the wild tribesmenofArabia are joining. The, Russians are en- couraging this as did the British up until the disaster at El Kub-e1-Amar- ra. It seems certain that the Tur- kish rule over Arabia is definitely end- ed. Glib writers speak of "war being stripped of all its glamor," "its pomp and circumstance." This is no more true of this war than of any real war. When men strip down for actual fight- ing they throw aside everything that is not absolutely necessary to win the victory. They prepare themselves for everything that is hard, disageee- able and dangerous. They know that their enemies have done the same, and the victory will be won _by those who can stand the most killing and endure the mosb hardship. A1I the glamor, pomp and circumstance comes after the war is over. The war in Europe is not more nak- , edly horrible than any other real war. In fact, there has been such a great advancement in the science of provid- ing for the comfort and health of sol- diers that those in Europe are spared many of the hardest things that other soldiers have had to endure. VALUE OF SAVING. Some Good Advice to the Young People. The opinions of William H. Osborn, United States Commissioner of Inter- national Revenue, on saving, are quoted in the August American Magazine. " `People get rich in two ways,' he says, 'The minority through skill and success in investments and trad- ing; the majority through systematic saving of small sums. I know a man o utthe use Quick Bread Recipes, Twentieth Century Bread. --To make four box loaves of bread scald one pint of milk, add one pint of water, and when the mixture is lukewarm add one small compressed yeastcake dissolved in half a cupful of warm water, a level teaspoonful of salt and sufficient whole wheat flour to make a batter; beet continuously for five minutes; cover and stand in a warm place, 75 degrees Fahrenheit, for two hours and a half. Then add flour slowly, stirring all the while, until the dough is sufficiently hard to turn on a baking board. Knead until it loses its stickness; divide it in loaves; put each loaf in a greased square pan; cover and stand in the same warm place for one hour, or until it has doubled its bulk. Brush the top with water ant bake in a moderately oven for three-quarters of an hour. The next is a little quicker, as the entire process only takes three hours from beginning to end. Hanko Bread. -31/2 cupfuls. sifter bread flour. 2 tablespoonfuls short- ening. 1 cupful water. 1 teaspoon- ful of salt. 2 tablespoonfuls sugar. 1 cake • compressed yeast,. Sift and measure the bread flour; rub the fat lightly into the flour with the tips of the fingers; divide the water into three cups. Add the salt to one cup, the sugar to another and soften the yeast in the third cup. Combine these liquids and add them to the flour, mixing the dough lightly with the fingers. When the dough will form a ball raise it from the bowl; hold it high in the air, and strike it with force upon the table four times. Replace in the bowl and allow it to rise for 1/ hours; at the end of which time turn the dough under the center four times. Place in. a greased bread pan and let the dough rise for a half and hour, Then bake the dough in a hot oven at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 to 35 minutes. When the bread comes free from the sides of the pan, tap, it, A hollow sound shows that it is done. Cool the bread and keep in a tin or air -tight box. Entire Wheat Bread.—Two cups scalded milk, Ye cup sugar or 1-3 cup molasses, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 yeast cake dissolved in x/�. cup lukewarm water, and 2 2-3 cups coarse entire wheat flour. Add sweetening and salt to milk, cool; and when lukewarm add dissolved yeast cake and flour; beat well; cover and leb rise to double its bulk. Again beat, and turn into greased bread pans, having pans half full; let rise and bake. Entire wheat bread should not be quite double ibs bulk during last rising. This mix- ture may be baked in gem pans. Entire Wheat and White Flour Bread.—Use same ingredients as for entire wheat bread, with exception of flour. For flour use 31/2 cups entire wheat and 2% cups white flour, The dough should be slightly kneaded, and if handled quickly will not stick to the board. Loaves and biscuits should be shaped with hands instead of pour - who just before he was to be mar- ing into pans, as in entire ried, twenty years ago, lost all he had, and went $11,000 in debt on a business deal. He gave his intended bride a chance to release herself. "'I think you can get on your feet again,' she told him. 'I'm willing to take a chance.' "'All right,' he said, 'get into the boat with me.' "And they were married. "The bride got a cigar box and cut a hole in the top of the lid. She call- ed it her `furniture box,' and into it went all the dimes and quarters she didn't really need. Soon she had Enough to furnish a home. "But she didn't quit saving. She kept right on until she had $2,000. With this she bought a piece of land, which slue later sold for $3,000. The fund kept growing, and she kept mak-. ing more investments, To -day she has Money and property in her own name valued at upwards of $40,000. "1 know of many more cases 'just like that. It's a law of business that invariably succeeds. "My advice to every young man is to start a savings fund and put into it a deft• ite part of what he makes, When the total runs to $500 or more he should invest it in something which brings more interest than he can get from a savings bank, yet iS safe. If he keeps on in this way, he will be independent when he gets old .enough to quit work. On the Safe Side. brother --If. I give you a diine, Char lie, will you keep it to put in.the plate Sunday or spend it selfishly on your- • self'? GharliieL,I will let you .know, inam- tna, atter you have given it to ine. In Russia. "ilo who steals my good name" ---- "Cats a load," wheat bread. Whole Wheat Bread.—One and one- half pints whole wheat flour, 1 tea- spoonful soda, 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 1 teaspoonful of salt, • s/a pint of cold water. Exceptionally simple and inexpensive is this recipe for bread, made without sweetening, shortening or yeast, yet it is sweet, tender and wholesome and the entire process 'takes less than two hours. Sift the. dry ingredients together (having the teaspoonful of soda, rounding—and the salt and cream of tartar level) then add the water, stir thoroughly, place in a well -greased, round tin, cover with a buttered paper and steam for one hour over constant- ly boiling water. Remove from the steamer and bake for .three-quarters of an hour in a slow oven. If cut, when cold, into slices and browned slightly in the oven it has a crisp, nutty flavor, which is both appetizing and delicious. Corn Bread. -2 cups cornmeal. 1 cup flour. 11/2 cups sour milk. % teaspoon baking soda. 11/2 teaspoon salt. 3 tablespoons melted drippings. 2 cup sugar. Mix and sift dry in- gredients, mix thoroughly and quickly turn into hot, well -greased, flat pan. Bake about 30 minutes. Cub into squares and serve hot. Corn Butter Bread.—Two eggs, half pint cornmeal, half pint milk, one tablespoonful of butter, melted; half cup white flour, half teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful baking' powder. Melt the butter over hot water; sep- arate the eggs; beat the yolks slight- ly; add the milk, then the butter, corn. - Meal, flour and salt. Beat thorough- ly, add the baking powder; beat again and fold in, carefully, the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. steam for an hour or so. Cut into Squares and serve warm. Sour Cream Biscuits,—Mix two' neenice Useful Hints and General informa- tion for the Busy Housewife cups flour, half teaspoon soda, two teaspoons baking powder and half tea- spoon salt and sift several times, With the tips of the fingers work into the flour one tablespoon butter, or, if desired, half tablespoon each butter I pickles, all chopped fine and seasoned Std. lard. Stir in lightly with a fork with salt, cayenne and vinegar. pour a little olive oil on the top and keep well corked. Vine linens and pieces of lingerie will last mull longer if they are wrung out by hand and not put through the wringer. It is not safe to eat mushrooms' after they have been allowed to get . cold. They develop injurious quali- ties and becomes poisonous. An old magazine kept on the kitch- en table is good to set hot pans on; the outer leaves can be torn off as fast as they get soiled, A Russian .salad is made from one onion, two apples and four cucumbers enough sour cream to make the dough just stiff enough to handle, probably about one cup. The dough can be left very soft if the board is well floured. Pat the dough out quickly one-half inch thick and cut into small rounds. Bake in a quick oven 15 to 20 mine Cites. If sour milli or buttermilk is used instead of sour cream, use two tablespoons shorbening in place of one tablespoonful. In cases of constipation either of the following are very advisable: Bran Bread.—Three cups. white flour, three cups bran, one teaspoon salt, half cup molasses, one teaspoon- ful baking soda, two cups sour milk or When some one has knocked a white place in the wall paper. copy the proper coloring of bhe figure with crayons and the spot will not show. When a kettle is badly burned, do not fill it with water, but set is aside to cool, then put in a handful of washing soda and water and allow it to bdil for an hour or more. Paint, no matter how hard and dry, can be taken out of woollen clothing by using a solution of equal parts of ammonia and turpentine. Saturate the spot two or three times, then wash out with soap suds. Instead of folding tablecloths after they are washed, roll them, folded buttermilk. Mix all together, put in- once or twice, lengthwise on mailing to greased bread pan and bake one and tubes of cardboard. This makes a one-half hours in a slow oven. smoother cloth with fewer creases, Bran and Graham Biscuit. One cup sterilized bran, two cups • graham flour, one cup milk, one egg, two tea- spoons butter, four teaspoons baking powder. Mix the dry ingredients to- gether, teat the egg slightly and add to the milk. Stir the liquids into the dry ingredients the same as for cream biscuits. Turn upon a slightly flour- ed molding board and roll to one-half inch in thickness. Cut into shape with the biscuit cutter and bake in a hob oven. Lastly, here is a very nourishing nut and raisin bread that is particu- larly good for the children's school luncheon, but it is well to chop the raisins so as to make them more eas- ily digested: Nut and Raisin Bread.—One cup white flour, two cups graham flour, quarter cup sugar; one cup chopped nuts, quarter cup small raisins, half teaspoonful salt, half cup molasses, two teaspoonfuls soda, two cups sour milk. Mix and sift the dry ingredi- ents, add nuts and raisins, then mol- asses and mix. Bake in a moderate oven 45 to 60 minutes. Things to Remember.. A portable fire extinguisher should be in every home. It is said that an omelette is the true test of civilization. Peas and coin should always be canned a few hours after they are gathered. A high cutting table, such as tailors use, is of the greatest service in the sewing room. When a worn place or hole appears in the matting it can be darned with strands of raffia. To remove ink stains, dip the stain in boiling water, rub with salts of sorrel and rinse well. When using a double thread, draw it over a piece of laundry soap and you will never have a snarl. The cloudy look on. a piano can be removed by a cloth dipped in Soap and water and wrung very' dry. Always, if possible, have your' din- ing room light and bright in the win- ter; and cool and shaded in the sum- mer. Left over corn and tomatoes can be made into an excellent chowder with an addition of sliced potatoes, milk and seasoning. To preserve the flavor of the olives which is, of course, to be desired. When potting plants, put a piece of coarse muslin over the hole in the pot .before putting in the bits of stone and soil, which keeps the drainage good. The muslin prevents the earth from washing away. A scant teaspoonful of boiled vine- gar beaten into boiled frosting when the flavoring is being added will keep it from getting brittle and breaking when the cake is cut. It will be as moist and nice in a week as the day it was made. Serving green vegetables on toast is an economical as well as a palatable -method. Ib makes the vegetable "go farther," adds considerably to the total food value of the dish, and is one more good way of using stale bread. TITLES OFTEN DUPLICATED. Various Lords Greys, Two Lords Mor- • ley, Two Earls of Mar, Etc. Sir Edward Grey will probably be known by the title of Earl Grey of Falloden. The peerage is already well -stocked with peers of this name. T hene is, of course, Earl Grey, for- merly Governor-General of Canada, who is himself Baron Grey of Howick. Neither of these must be confused with Lord Grey of Ruthyn, nor with Lord Grey of Wilton, the eldest son of the Earl of Wilton, nor. with Lord Grey of Groby, eldest son of the Earl of Stamford. And all these are quite distinct from Earl' de Grey, who succeeded to his father's Marques - sate of Ripton in 1909. There is really no copyright in titles. There are two Lords Morley, an Earl and Viscount. There are two Barons Monteagle, voting as such in the Lords, though one is known as the Marquess of Sligo and now Earl of Clanricarde in . the I. ish Peerage. Scottish Representatives .Peers in- clude the Earl of Mar and the Earl of Mar and Kellie. There are Baron Clifford and Baron de Clifford (a minor) ; while two other titles which are often confounded because of the spelling are Viscount Midieton and Baron Middleton and the Earls of Desert and Dysart. Lord Midieton sits as Baron Broderick in the Peer- age of the United Kingdom., Giving up smoking brings one great compensation with it—the joy of be- ginning again. This is not to be de - when a large bottle has been opened spisecl. COMPILING THE CA3UALTV LISTS. An oif,cial British photograph taken "somewhere" -along the region of the ltcglish drive showing a British company lined up for roil -call in one of the advanced trenches after the gruelling battle of July 14th. CONTAINS NO ALUM ; y PRUSSIAN GUARD PRIDE O F HIM IT IS AN ARMY CORPS OF 50,000 PICKED MEN. • But a Few More Blows Like Contal- maison Will Shake German Faith. On the morning of May 21, 1913, I was standing hi Lehrter Station, Ber- lin, awaiting the arrival of King George and Queen Mary, who had come to Germany for the wedding of Princess Victoria Luise of Prussia, writes Frederic William Wile, late Berlin correspondent of the London the work of a "neutral"—Louis Rae - Daily Mail. Presently the iron raft- maekers, the Netherlander? Per- ers of the barnlike old Bahnhof shook haps geography enters into the an - with a mighty hubbub. The "honor swer of this question. Holland bor- ders both on Germany and Belgium.. Hollanders and Belgians have some- times disliked one another, yet they preceded by its thunderous band and are, after all, alike in a good many fife -and -drum corps. With deafening respects, and Holland has ministered thud the phalanx of young giants, to many suffering Belgians, and there six-footers to a man, goosestepped is no way of transmitting distrust past the Imperial welcoming party, into sympathy like doing one's one - leaving in their wake a cloud of dust time enemy a considerable service. and a rumble that might have been Obviously, what Germany did to made by a cavalcade. Belgium she might still' do to Holland "Na, mein lieber Wile," quoth my even though the likelihood of that old friend Schmidt of the Berliner catastrophe diminishes as German Zeitung am Mittag, "so was gibt's in strength is gradually diffused. The England wohl nicht!" (Well, my dear possibility of a clash between- Hol - princelings go through the form of "earning" their promotion by succes- sive stages, beginning as subalterns and graduating to a colone]cy. Napoleon once called his guard "a moving citadel which protects the Emperor wherever he may be." The Kaiser on a spectacular occasion early in his reign stole the aphorism and applied it to the Prussian. Guard. It is well for the Supreme War Lord', apparently, that he was not at Con- talmaison, else his "citadel" might have fallen in on him, crushed by the "contemptible little British army." ABSORPTION OF HOLLAND. The German Wolf and the Dutch Red Riding Hood. . How comes it that the hest car; toons drawn against the Germans are company" of the Fleet Regiment of the Infantry of the Guard was tramp- ing down the platform to the train, Wile, that's something you haven't got in England). Schmidt was right. There is noth- ing like the Prussian Guard; there is something better. And a few more smashes at the Prussian Guard, such as the British army delivered at Con- talmaison, and that "internal col- lapse" in Germany upon which many people in England have built prema- ture hopes will be materially hasten- ed. For the Guard of Prussia, in Hun tradition, is invincible. To de- feat it decisively in action is visibly to undermine German's hopes of "vic- tory." The "Super" -Army Corps. "What is the Prussian Guard?" I have been asked a score of times. Un - land and Germany, says the New York Tribune, seemed greater in the spring of 1916, and especially in the second month of ' the great Verdun attack, than at any earlier stage of the war, nand the Netherlanders (mobilized from the outset) suddenly adopted extra precautions on the' coast, and, more especially, on the Schleswig-Holstein frontier. German manufacturers would na- turally profit enormously by an ar- rangement bringing within their tar- iff walls so large a section of agri- cultural gricultural Europe. The Dutch are per- suaded that if Germany ever swal- lows them she will find the dish de- cidedly indigestible. Moreover, the independence of Holland during the like our Guards, which in peace corn- present war has been an advantage 'to Germany in at least two ways. prise Household Cavalry and Foot Guards (in all about 10,000 men), the Supplies have been brought into the Guard of Prussia is ani army corps partially blockaded empire through which takes the field as a separate Holland as well as through neutral unit and is made tip on a peace foot- ' Denmark; Rumania and via Scan- dinavia. Mr. W. C. Bu11in argues ing of some 50,000 troops of all arms. that Holland has also been argues It embraces thirteen regiments of in- i four army corps to Germany, giving Pantry, eight regiments of cavalry, Ias she does a perfect protection to and four regiments of field artillery. , When we speak of the "Prussian ;Germanys right flank. Neutral na- . tions have their uses, even from the Guard," therefore, we mean foot, • rifles, Uhlans, dragoons, cuirassiers, Teuton standpoint. hussars and even sa ers. In the Germany has invented a curious war the "Guard" may be augmented fusion of sentimental, racial, goo - to as many as 50,000 troops, so that graphic and economic arguments even if 5,000 have fallen the "Guard" for establishment of a European is by no means "wiped out." hegemony of non -Germanic national - The men of the corps are the sup- hies. This clap -trap has excited, • but has not imposed upon, European posed super -troops of the Kaiser's intelligence. Already Holland has army, hallowed by legend with tin- paid part of the price of proximity conquerable prowess. Their officers to Germany. During the first year are exclusively noble, and the ramie , of Clic war she spent $1.0,000,000 inet file must be at least 5 feet 10 for "extraordinary requirements." At nches and 168 pounds. Unlike other Prussian regiments, the Guard is not a territorial unit, recruited from the particular local district in which it is raised or has its headquarters, but consists of men from all parts of the kingdom. Two qualifications are essential -- the physical standard mentioned and "better -class" origin. As a rule, the Guards belong to the the present time more than 350,000 Dutchmen are under arms, :nut the national debt has been raised nearly one-half by reason of military and naval expenditure, loss of trade, 'Bel- gian relief and the destruction of shipping. Since the opening of hos- tilities on Germany's part between two and three hundred vessels be - older farming stock of the Pruss'an longing to Holland and the Seandiut- avian neutrals have been sunk by the Germans in the North Sea. Provinces. To have performed his ! two or three years of military ser- . vice with Guard regiments in Berlin A successful blacksmith can ^uFhir or Potsdam, where they are . ex- slue a Horse or make a hoi'scshoe, elusively quartered, is for every young Prussian a badge of distinction' It's an easy world to get along in which serves him well in later life. ! All you've gob to do is show a wil- lingness to earn your way and net Three Generations. !grumble too much about it and fee;The First and Second Regiments , will be glee 1 to have you around. of the Infantry of the Guard are the particular pets of the Hohenzollerns, All Prussian royal princes -serve in them by tradition, formally entering their ranks in their tenth birthdays, as "the littlest Willie," the Crown Prince's eldest son,, did the other day, completing what I heard some one I• call "three degenerations." The 1 ARE Ci tini NO STEER/NESS ALL P)E1ti.ER 7 G.C.irigtgs Q Son iAM1L' Ola