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Zurich Herald, 1916-09-29, Page 7NOTES AND COMMENTS There is a probability that the war will make a republic of Germany. The German people are more near1V and naturally republicans in thought and action than any other people on the Continent, and are better fitter for a republican form of government. The military caste, which has domin- ated them and precipitated them into the present awful catastrophe, is a survival of the past, of which the peo- ,pie are at heart sincerely tired.. It is highly probable that the only rea- son for the aristocratic caste bring- ing about the war was to stem the rapidly rising tide of republicanism in Germany. The German people were making rapid progress toward a government responsible to the people, and not. to the Kaiser. They were following the footsteps of the English in making the ministry responsible to Parlia- ment, instead of to the Emperor. They had made the most striking curtail- ments of the Kaiser's prerogatives of absolute rale, and were in a fair way to reduce the Emperor to the condi- tion of the King of England, who is a mere figurehead in the government. The Kaiser and the aristocratic caste, of which he is the head, saw no way to stem this movement than to bring about the emergency of a great war. After the war is over, and the Ger- man press freed from military cen- sorship, there will be very free critic- ism of the awful blunders of the mili- tary caste, and the shocking sacrifice of the best German blood in these blunders. The earlier victories of the military caste dazzled the German people, but the diasters which are certain to follow will bring a day of retribution to those who have wanton- ly wasted so much of the German blood and treasure in. a causeless, wanton war. The result of this may be the overthrow of the Hohenzollern and the military caste. The Germans will continue military instructions!, which are compulsory, but they will, in all likelihood, re- model their army upon the democratic system of France. There is no mili- tarism in France, and every position in the army is open to any private soldier in the ranks. Up to this date it will be shown that Generals, rising from the common people, are, after all, superior to the "hochgebor- en" (high born) aristocrats of Ger- many, to whom all commissions in the aenl;:- have, se far, been confined. THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK. The Minute Hand, the Racer, Is the Useless One. The hour hand of the clock seems a ponderous, deliberate fellow com- pared with his swift -going colleague, who sweeps clear round the circuit while he makes his way painfully over five of the minute spaces from one hour point to the next. Yet, though one goes ever so much farther and faster, again and again the minute hand, for all his speed, is merely over- taking the patient plodder, who, with his stubby finger, is the real time giver. You cannot tell from this grat- ing minute -man alone what time it is. But from the position of the hour hand en solitude you could very nearly know. Moreover, except for two hours in the whole round of the 24 hours— at noon and at midnight—the minute hand, though he races all the way round the orbit, finds to his dismay that he starts increasingly in arrears behind the other hand, and must over- come an always lengthening handicap.! And what is the use of proudly pass- ing and getting to the goal first, 22 times out of the 24, when the victory Is only apparent and not real, since both hands tell the same thing after all ? And the minute hand, the racer, is the useless one. Just so .one sees strong, silent men - who plod their way, undramatic, serious, while others brandish and nourish like nervous semaphores all round them. The world is depending on those who seew. "no painful inch to gain." The useful ones are ap- parently nicking no headway at all. The brilliant and superficial run af- ter, overtake and outstrip them easily, again and again. It is the old fable of the hare and the tortoise. FIANCEES "WAIT WIDOWS." Though Unwed, They Wear Mourning for German Soldiers. Many young women in the Duchy of Baden, Germany, betrothed to of- ficers and soldiers killed in the war, have taken advantage of a recent de- er ee of the Minister of Justice that gives them practically the status of widows. They have adopted the genies of their. dead fiances, and call themselves "Mrs." (Frau)„ They ;wear mourning and wedding rings, nd are known as war widows. They ear head-dresses distinguishing them from real widows. It is expected that this system will e extended to other German States. .Marriage ceremonies are performed in many cases at Baden at the Regis- try Office in the .usual way with wit-. kiesses. ABOUT TSE HOUSEHOLD 4e Dainty Dishes. Rhubarb Jam.—Five pounds of rhu- barb, cut as for stewing. Five pounds of granulated sugar. One pound of finely cut figs. One-half pound of al- mond meats, blanched and cub fine. Mix these ingredients and let stand over night. In the morning boil the mixture for forty-five minutes. Pat in glasses when cold and cover with paraffin. Onion and Potato Puree.—Two cups diced potatoes, one cup minced onion, three cups water, one teaspoon salt (or half -teaspoon each salt and cel- ery salt), one-fourth teaspoon pep- per, two tablespoons butter and milk or cream as needed. Boil potatoes and onions until well done. Rub through fruit press, season and re- heat, adding as much milk or .cream as needed to thin to right consistency. Serve with minced parsley and crou- tons. Baked Onions.—Four cups peeled onions, one cup milk, two tablespoons each of flour, butter and breaderumbs, one and one-half teaspoons salt, dash of pepper. Put onions on to cook with enough boiling water to cover; add one teaspoon salt and boil until tender, without covering, Brush baking dish with a little butter, put in onions, and pour over cream sauce. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and bake until light brown. Cream sauce; Melt butter in sauce pan, add flour, mix well; add cold milk slowly, stir,i Egg Gems.—Line the bottom and until smooth and creamy. Add Pepe! sides of each cup in a gem pan with per and one-half teaspoon salt and the usual sour milk biscuit dough. boil three minutes. i Prick the -dough with a fork so that it Combination Conserve. — Twelve won't puff up, and set in the oven to peaches, twelve pears, one pineapple, bake. When done grate t cheese and six oranges, six lemons, two quarters ; break an egg into each cup; cover of crabapples. Peel and quarter the ; with cheese, salt and pepper and let crabapples and measure after quarter- i the eggs set. Rice or ;macaroni to ing. Peel the peaches, pears and'; which a well -beaten egg and a table oranges and divide into eighths. nal ' spoonful of flour have been added may the pineapple and cut in dice; slice the be used in place of the biscuit dough. lemons very thin without peeling Creamed Eggs.—Chep whites of them. Weigh all the fruit; add three- eight or ten hard boiled eggs and fourths pound of sugar for each pound grate and mash the yolks with a sil- of fruit; mix gently in preserving ket- ver fork. Make a sauce of two tle and simmer for two hours, stirring tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour as little as possible. Pour in glasses. to which two cupfuls of sweet mills New Way With Sandwiches.—Roll- have been added slowly. Let boil up ed sandwiches look pretty, and they once or twice, season with salt, pep - are just as easy to make as the other per, mustard or red pepper and add. kind. Any housekeeper who makes the chopped whites. Place pieces of sandwiches often appreciates some- hot toast on a hot platter and cover thing different in this line, for the each piece with the mixture. Season same old kind is very Iikely to become the yolks with €alt, pepper, mustard decidedly unwelcome with a critical and a little vinegar, add sweeb or family acting as judges. The next sour cream and smooth to the consist_ time you prepare sandwiches cut the ency of dreamy paste; place a heap - bread real thin, then put your minced ing tablespoonful on the center of meat, olives or jelly on the buttered each piece of the covered toast. Serve bread as usual. , When you are quite with crisp strips of bacon and garnish satisfied with the result, and all the with lettuce leaves. edges have been trimmed off the -— bread, roll the bread firmly as you Useful Hints. would do with a bandage Secure with Hard sauce is delicious on apple pie. a toothpick, then tie with a bow of Half -ripe grapes always make the colored ribbon. Remove the tooth- best jelly. pick and your sandwich is complete. Soup should never be made in a Mustard Pickles. — Two quarts metallic ketole. green tomatoes; soak overnight in All greens should be blanched be- i weak brine and drain. Two quarts fore canning. small cucumbers. One medium head Milk and custards should not stand cabbage. One quart small onions. in any but' enamel vessels. Six large red peppers. Chop all fine Any fruit or vegetable to be eaten and boil all together, except cusum- raw should be carefully washed. bers, in clear water until bender, drain Small bits left from meat or firli well and add: Two quarts cider vine- should be saved and used in potato gar. One-half cup ground mustard. puffs. Three cups sugar, One cup flour mix- Sliced pineapple is more delicious , ed with vinegar. Two teaspoons red I if sliced and sugared about 12 hours pepper. Two teaspoons black pepper. before- serving. Bring to a boil, add the chopped It should never be forgotten that cucumbers; bottle and seal while hot. unclean milk is as great a menace as Plum Conserve.—Though we give ' unclean water. plums as the fruit to use in the fol- A rice cream may be made like a lowing recipe, any fruit in season may thin rice pudding, only it should be be used in the same manner. Stew ' cooked longer, poured into a mold two and one-half quarts of plums with land chilled. one and one-half cups of water until! The bones left from roast beef or they are very soft. Strain through lamb can be pat into a pot with pota- a colander, then add as much grana- toen and boiled. They will give the lated sugar as you have pulp. Put potatoes a rich flavor, through a food chopper two oranges, H a mother can invent little games one small lemon, one pound of seeded to play while the children are being raisins, one-half pound of Walnut washed and dressed those processes meats and one-half pound of sur[ dried may go on more easily. When you think the vaseline bottle is empty, heat it and lay it on 'its side to cool—you will. be surprised at the amount- of vaseline you will save, A convenient way to boil macaroni is to put it in a wire basket. Im- merse this in a kettle of boiling wa- ter. When the macaroni is done, lift it out. To make cottage cheese of fine tex- ture, have the water with which you scald the clabber merely hot.. if ib is boiling the curd will be very hard and lumpy. If there is a stubborn spot on white paint that can not be removed with soap and water,, dip a wet cloth in whiting and 'rub the spot. It will come off with ease. There comes a time when any hard- wood floor should be thoroughly cleans ed. Wipe it over with a pure white soap and water, changing the 'water often. Then go over it with a cloth y"`" saturated with a good floor oil. ernetsES wise sess, ' A number of applicants are desired for the Training School for Nursee, Eospital for insane, Toronto. Three years Course. Leotures start October 1, 1916. Probationers begin at $13.00 a month, with board, uniform and laundry. .Apply Miss 10, V. West, /lead nurse, 999 Queen St. W., Toron- to. careful not to burn. This is delici- ous for sandwiches or to serve with chicken or turkey. Chili Sauce.—Twelve large, ripe, solid tomatoes, four cups of vinegar, two teaspoons of ground cloves, two teaspoons of ground cinnamon; one- half teaspoon of ground ginger, one tablespoon of mustard, one red pepper pod, four large onions, two table- spoons of salt (More if desired). Wash the onions and tomatoes. Re- move the outer skin of the onions and chop them fine. Put the tomatoes in boiling •water for a few Minutes and then remove the skin. Put in all the other ingredients and boil on a slow fire for about .two hours. Put this in sterilized glass bottles which have been standng in hot water, while hot, and seal. Keep in a cool, dry place. 'Fried cabbage is delicious, Cut the cabbage up as for stew, . pub it into panWith enough water to cover and let simmer until almost tender, then put it in the fab and brown it as you would potatoes. It takes little time to cook it in this way. To the old-fashioned housekeeper and cook the methods of .accurate measurement do not seem important. When our cooks begin, to learn that cooking is an exact science, there will be less said about "luck" in cook- ing. The "hit or miss" methods of measurements are the cause of poor results. ESHER URGES MORON JOB NOBLEMAN WHO SNUBBED THE CURIOUS KAISER. Ways of Emperor William Were Seen Through By Him In 1907. .Egg Recipes. are bread dress - Lord Esher has recently issued a Nest Eggs.—Prepare very emphatic warning to the British ing, as for chicken or turkey, omitting relative to the desirability of their not the rage and using only onion and red being "caught a second time in the pepper for seasoning. •Form it into ,meshes of sleep" by the Germans. He nests twice the size of an egg, and is very insistent that the jab must be place them into a bread- pan well thoroughly done this time—that the greased and set into the oven. When snake must not artl baked break an egg into each butins be His `scotched' p y. h killed. His hollowed center and return to the oven warning was writ - until the eggs are set. These are ter. from head - good served 'with a drawn butter quarters at the sauce, tomatoes, mush -room sauce or front, where he a dash of chili sauce. has been staying for some time and whence he has written tome very graphic let- ters descriptive of the fine work done by British ammunition, and Lord Esher. urging the muni- tion makers not to discontinue their efforts, His warning about doing the job thoroughly derives especial signifi- cance from, the opportunity he pos- sessed for becoming acquainted with the extreme artfulness of the attempts made by the German Government to weave the meshes of sleep' wherein they hoped to catch the British when the European war, for which they were steadily preparing, actually broke out. In the early winter of 1907 the Kaiser visited England. He was —as usual when he paid one of his frequent visits to England --overflow- ing with loving kindness towards the British. At Windsor Castle he was a guest of King Edward, and was all grace and graciousness. Now, it so happened that Lard Ester, at that time, was Deputy Con- stable of Windsor Castle, and, in that capacity, was at Windsor during the Kaiser's stay there. He happened, moreover, to be as well a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Of this Iatter fact the Kaiser was, or course, well aware. All urbanity, he sought to discuss with the Deputy Constable of Windsor Castle the ques- tion of British naval programs and defences. figs. Use the rind of the oranges and lemon as well as the pulp, but re- tnove the white skin and seeds. Cools all together fifteen minutes, being sikei oral reoolw },Abed cash "flow. Ws send! mon /ho earns day flu tars us moist& char ondoammissioLs eWsnAiaanoe ioto* ri s idfeoeeie :Ail ooxhgera. v@,torat4 11e aotta.. taA ' Rh,11,5 d d 1 FREE ib a yrr a tt tv as ti m' t.,,,,;,, Ilmt hos oh ToonSs$ . et worst 202 Hallam Building, Toronto. Snubbed the Kaiser. Ilowever, Lard Esher is no fool. He realized that "fine words butter no parsnips," and that beneath all the Kaiser's soft sauder lay dark and sinister designs. Hence, although usually noted for his tact and charm of manner, he let the Kaiser see pretty plainly that he saw through his crafty game. He put the Kaiser where he belonged, And the Kaiser never forgave him. But at that time the late Lord Tweedmouth was First Lord of the Admiralty. And he either lacked Lord Esher's sagacity or was more amiable to the Emperor's soft soap. Anyhow, he was ill-advised enough to allow himself to be drawn into a conference with the Kaiser on naval matters. This .became noised abroad, and Lord Tweedmouth was popularly credited with something like an act of treason. On the full facts becoming known it appeared that he had acted with the knowledge of his colleagues—Sir Hen- ry Campbell -Bannerman was Premier —in replying to the Kaiser's letter, and that he had not (as was popular- ly supposed) prematurely disclosed the British naval estimates to the Kaiser, to whom, in fact, he gave no information which was not given to Parliament at the same time. Still there had undoubtedly been some la - discretion, and the incide-1 led to Lord Tweedmouth's relinquishment of the Admiralty. All this is of particular interest be- cause it was in his notorious letter to Lord Tweedmouth that the Kaiser showed how the snubbing he had re- ceived 'from' Lord Esher several months before—the letter was written in the .spring of 1908—still rankled. "brains and Navies" In this letter the Kaiser venomously seized on Lord Esher's capacity of Deputy Constable of Windsor Castle to build on it a' deliberate insult to the man who had snubbed him, He expressed himself as being doubtful "whether the .supervision of the foun- (talons and drains of Royal Palace is apt to quality somebody for the 7,udg - meat of naval affairs in' general." It was rumored at the time that it was through this gibe at Lord Esher that the fact became known to the public that Lord Twoedutouih was corres- ponding with the Kaiser. For the First Lord is said to have thought the CONTAINS NO ALUM slap at "Reggie Brett"—as Lord Esher is still familiarly known -rather smart and to have talked about it at some dinner. At the Kaiser's own court, .how- ever, the "slap at Reggie Brett" j evoked a good deal of laughter against the Kaiser himself, it being said that, he was not the man to have talked of the unwlsdom of mixing of drains with high political affairs, in view of one of his own experiences. For it 1 was at the height or one of his own political crises—after the dismissal, of Cafrivi from the Chancellorship -1 that the Kaiser explained one day at his luncheon -table : "Here is a nice state of things i This city of (naming a small town) proposed to empty its refuse into the river just above the bathing establishment. f Nobody in the Home Office saw the I mistake, and it took me four hours to get out a better plan." Here was the Kaiser bothering about the sewage of a little town, while his Empire was in the throes of a. crisis. And yet, with typical lack of humor, that very man sneered at Lord Esher's duty of "super- vising drains" as disqualifying him for a knowledge of naval affairs. PREFERS TO BE A CIVILIAN. riches in forests, vineyards and mines of gold and silver, cover an area ! larger than that of Scotland. His palaces, of which a dozen are in or near his capital, are the most magni- ficent in Europe, miracles of costly de- coration and furnishing; and his treasures of precious stones have no rival in the world. And yet the owner of all this ultra - regal magnificence is a man of such modest tastes and such an aver- sion to pomp and display that, as he has confessed, he would much rather be a private gentleman on the'equiva- lent of $5,000 a year than Autocrat of the Russias. He finds little pleasure in the splendors of Peterhof, of the Winter Palace; and makes his home, whenever it is possible, at Livadia, a modest country villa among the Crim- ean vineyards, or in a secluded house in one or other of his stately parks, Ieading the simplest of lives and ideally happy in the company of his wife and children. That this shrinking from the splen- dors of a crown is older than his kingdom is proved by the following story: On one occasion, while re- turning from the annual family holi- day at Copenhagen, conversation turned upon a difference that had sprung up between the Danish Ring and his Parliament. "Well," ex- claimed the youthful Czarevitch, as then was, "a king's bed is not always one of roses, that is plain to be seen. There are many more pleasurable oc- cupations than that of a ruler; and, so far as I am concerned, I have no desire to be either Emperor, Czar or any other potentate." Czar of All the Russias Has an Aver- sion to Pomp and Display. Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir and Novgorod, with five separate titles of czar, 17 grand dukedoms, almost beyond number, hereditary prince and sovereign of the princes of Circassia and other mountain princes, and successor of Norway. Such is the dazzling array of titles owned by Nicholas IL, the "Great Whits Czar," and, in the eyes of his subjects, "the cousin of God," The empire over which he rules comprises one-seventh of the entire land surface of the earth; his annual revenue is a million and a half pounds; the state domains of which he is lord, with their incalculable Inadequate Instructions Caller—Nellie, is your mother M? Nellie—No, mother is out shopping. Caller—When will she return? Nellie (loudly)—Mother, what shall I say now? V.3 arm F .m e or Sma ll looks Easiest Terms. Payments Spread Over Seven Years Clear Title on First Cash Payment Most desirable locations right on railway in best Mixed farming district in Saskatchewan. Intermediate Sections largely settled. Churches, schools, etc., within convenient access. If interested, write immediately for further par- itcular+s. night, Agent, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.