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Zurich Herald, 1917-09-28, Page 7DOMESTIC SCJENCE AT ROME Eleventh Lesson .—Beverages, Nearly three-fifths of the tot¢°1 pot •or white stone pitcher, dry the weight of the human body is corn\ pitcher and then place in it the desired posed of water. For perfect assimila- amount of tea. Now pour on the tion of our food and to help the body freshly boiled water. Cover it and regulate its processes, it is necessary allow to stand for five minutes, then that she adult drink from eight to ten use it. glasses of water a day. - •This method will produce a delicious When an insufficient amount of wa- cup of fragrant tea, and it avoids ter is provided to the human body the drawing out the tannin which is pres- blood is overloaded with waste prod- ent in the tea leaf. If water is used acts and the organs of elimination,be- that has been standing in the teakettle come torpid. As an active constituent or water that has been long ineboiling, of the blood stream, it is of vital im- much of the valuable gases are de- portance that sufficient good, pure strayed. drinking water be taken daily. French Method of Making Coffee Tea is a decoction of boiling water and tea. It has no food value. Ow- ing to various elements contained in the tea leaf, it acts as a stimulator. Coffee is made by various processes • from the berry, which has been previ- ously roasted and ground. By the addition of water, it becomes an active stimulant, containing caffeine, Cocoa is made by, the cddition of milk and water. It has a food value other- than the value of milk. The sugar, ter over it. Cover closely forten fat•and starches of cocoa or chocolate minutes and place where it will be • all contain nutriment, hot. One tablespoonful of coffee for Milk contains protein in the form of each 'cup of boiling water. casein, fat ands mineral salts, which Coffee made by this method will contain alr the delicious aroma that escapes when it is made in a percola- tor or by boiling or scalding. The energy, Mothers will find that a glass percentage of caffeine is much less holding\ one-half pint of milk has' a than when the coffee is made by other food value equal to that of three and methods. • one-half ounces of beef. Milk is Cocoa or Chocolate particularly rich in vitamines, which promote growth and health. Lsaglish Method of'Maldug Tea. Use a white stone or an earthen- ware pot for making the tea. Fill the chocolate will be smooth and rich in pot with boiling water to heat it. Now flavor. place the desired amount of water in When heating milk allow it to come the teakettle to boil, Just before the just below the scalding point. Boiling water reaches the boiling point turn destroys the vitamines and lowers the out the water froze the earthenware food value. Use a stone pitcher, fill it with boil- ing water and set in a vessel contain- ing hot water. This will thoroughly heat the pitcher. Now place one level tablespoonful of pulverized coffee for each cup desired in a clean piece of cheesecloth and tie. Have the water freshly boiled. Pour out the water from the pitcher. Put the coffee in the pitcher and pour the boiling wa- make it the ideal food for children. It supplies material for building muscle, bone and teeth structures; it also gives Use equal parts of water and milk. Dissolve the cocoa or chocolate in hot water; add to rest of milk and water. If beaten continually the cocoa or Home Canning. Canned Pumpkin.—Cut the pumpkin and then peel and remove the seeds. Cut it into pieces suitable for cooking. place in a large preserving kettle and add water. Cook until soft, ,then drain and mash. Fill into sterilized jars.. Place the rubber and lid in position and then partially tighten them, Place in a hot water bath and process for forty-five minutes after the water starts boiling. Remove from the bath and fasten the lids securely. Test for leaks and then store in a cool, dry place. The pumpkin may be cut in half; the Squeeze dry frdm the brine; now place seeds removed. It may then be plat- one quart of onions cut in thin slices ed in an oven and baked. When tender in bottom of preserving kettle, then a serape the soft pulp with a spoon and. then fill into sterilized jars. Process the same as for boiled pumpkin. to each quart of the liquid and fruit. Return to the preserving kettle. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, then eook slowly until the fruit is transparent, and when some of the mixture if left on a cold saucerwill: thicken like jam. Now pour into the sterilized glass jars, pots or bowls, cool and cover with parowax. Seal and store in the Man- ner usual for jellies. Long and slow cooking will give the quinces the beautiful amber color, Tomato Mustard.—Take one-quarter peck of green tomatoes, sliced very thin, and sprinkle them thickly with salt. Let them stand for five hours, layer of tomatoes, proceeding in this way until all are used. Add four ounces of mustard, cover with vinegar Pumpkin , Jam.—This jam can be and then cook gently for one and one made through the fall and winter. One half hours. Put into jelly glasses quart of stewed pumpkin, juice of one and when cold cover the tops with lemon, juice of one orange, one cupful paraffin. ., of raisins, cut in small pieces, two and .Clear Tomato Soup.—Twenty large one-half cupfuls of sugar. „Place in a tomatoes, four quarts of water, six porcelain preserving kettle. Stir until onions, five green peppers, one cupful the sugar is ,dissolved and then add of washed rice, one fagot of soup the following spices tied in a cheese- herbs. Chop the tomatces - fine and .loth bag: three tablespoonfuls of ging: then add the vegetables, rice and wa- ;ter, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, ter. Cook until it can be rubbed ilwo teaspoonfuls of mace. Cook slow- through a • sieve. Season with ly for one hour, then remove the spice paprika and salt and four teaspoonfuls bag. Pour into sterilized glasses or of finely chopped parsley. This ere ks. Cover and store in the usual' amount may be doubled if desired. manner for jellies, IFill into sterilized jars. Place the Squash. --Peel the squash and then, rubber and lid in position and partial- ' remove the seeds. Cut into pieces; ly tighten then. Process in a hot. and cook in boiling water until to/Wen! water bath for one hour after the wa- Drain and ,mash and then season', ter starts boiling. Remove and fasten slightly with salt. Fill into sterilized the lids securely, test for leaks, then jars. Adjust the rubbers and lids store in a cool, dry place. aiid then partjally tighten them. Place! Kidney Stew,—Cut the kidneys into HIGHEST PRICES PAIL) For POULTRY,' GAME, EGGS & FEATHERS Please write for ,particulars. Y`. IMMIX & .00., 39 ztonsoconre Market, 24tontirea1 THE WAIT SPIRIT. The sights and sounds of summer nights Have changed; the steely stars Are glinting bayonets around The crimson .flag of Mars. The bullfrogs in the reedy pond Are pounding the big based -nuns, The fireflies in the dewy fields Behold! are bursting borhbs. • The cricket on the fife, Along the misty hill The waving branches simulate A regiment at drill, Soft bandages as white as snow The garden -spiders spin, The katydid has turned her tune, And now command, "Fall' in?", -Minna Irving. THE DEADLYMANZANILLO. Beautiful Tree, Native of the West Indies, Has Poisonous Properties. Literature on the tropics abounds with stories of poisonous plants and trees, and to this beautiful tree, arch- ing many a roadway with its glgssy gtpden leaves and rose -tinted flowers, has been ascribed the deadly poison- ous properties of the far-famed Upas tree or the East. To the fruit of this tree, more than to the effect of its foliage, is due its evil name. Manzanillo in Spanish means "little apple" and in the Papiamento tongue of the blacks of Curacao, Dutch West Indies, living in their little thatched huts, the name Manzanillo is pronounced but slightly differently from the Spanish. It has been stated by Spanish writers that if one remains under its shade for a few hours or sleeps",there death is likely to follow, or that even if the unfortunate escapes death the body will become a mass of running sores. The deleterious properties of the shade of this tree have, however, been greatly exaggerated, and as for the actual poisonous effect ,of th'e leaves and shade considerable diver- sity of opinion still exists, as is the case with the poison ivy of the States. The small, apple -shaped fruits have tempted manya stranger to- a much- regretted meal. As recently as the summer of.1916 an officer of a Dutch steamer had a narrow . escape from serious poisoning, emeties'•and. Stom- ach pumps alone saving his ` life. Some 32 years ago 54 members of the crew of a German ship were taken to the local hospital all very sick from having eaten the fruit of the Man- zanillo. Five of this number died and the rest, after serious illness for several weeks, recovered. As is the case with the question of the leaves and shade, there are many accounts of the effect of the fruit. To quote from one writer "A fish which eats the fruit becomes infected, the gills becoming yellow and black, and one who eats the fish in this state is said to fall into a profound lethargy, with a general relaxation of all the limbs, according to the amount eaten." The tree .when cut exudes a. quan- tity of white, milky juice, in the same manner as the common rubber -tree, and to most persons this juice has the same effect as our poison -ivy, How- ever, if this -acrid milky juice reaches the delicate membrances of the eye, temporary and often permanent blind- ness is sure to follow. The Manzanillo is a native of the gest Indian Islands and is usually found In moist situations. EFFECT OF HIGH-PRICED COAL. Many Old Steam Power Plants -Being Replaced by Modern Ones.' We are possibly just as wasteful of in a hot water bath and process for, small pieces rejecting tubes and hard coal as is the United -States, where, forty minutes after the water starts ; portions. BIanch and then cook un- according to V. 11. Manning, Director' boiling, Remove jars and fasten the til tender in sufficient water to cover, of the United States Bureau of Mines; lids securely and then test for leaks. adding two onions, finely minced. fully $500,000,000 were wasted lost ° - Store in .a cool, dry place. This may When tender thicken the gravy amitt. year, through inefficiency in use, Not - be used when fresh vegetables are' ly with two tablespoonfuls of flour. withstanding the Higher etilcieney rel Scarce; for the sake of variety used as Add one tablespoonful of flour. Add dared passible by the ;constant inn squash fritters or biscuits or in place one tablespoonful of'"'`f1nely minced provement of modern power eciuip- parsley.Fill into sterilizedwent, the waste is increasing and .the of pumpkin for pie. pint jars higher price of the commodity is sub - Quince Jam.—Peel one-quarter peck and place the rubber and lid in posi- jetting the country toga still heavier of quinces, Remove the seeds and tion, then partially* tighten. Place cores, • Cut in very thin slices. Place in a hot water bath and process for penalty. Every pound wasted is that ,in a preserving kettle and cover with two ane one -forth hours after the wa- much less available to put into energy Cold water, having the water at least ter starts boiling,. ' Remove from the to win the war. • two inches above the fruit. Cook bath, fasten the tops securely and then In the modern, efficient power plant, slowly until the fruit is tender, Place test for leaks. Store in a cool, dry 20 per cent. of the Beat in the coal the eelin sand cores in a secondplace. Shea or z kidneys may' be consumed is converted into power, p g p g y' whereas in small power stations the preserving kettle. Cover with cold rooked in the seine manlier and they efl]cAney frequently drops below 10 • water; Cogk slowly until toner and will be found to be delicious for lunch 1151: -cent. It is quite that, on then,dr711ixx through a jelly bag, Add eon on a cold or' stormy day by simply the average, onlys about probable, ort e per this liquid to" the thinly sliced quinces. heatin and '•serving in a border of Nteasure and allow -One pint of sugar mashe potatoes,. 0001.....-..,4. .,.ry+ M.a 4.4.34.•••..... cent. of the energy of the coal is transformed into useful energy ready for distribution. Were it possible to We are all in the habit of condemn ane. instead of condemning our increase the average efficiency to leg the man ;who •bias some din of neighbor let us look to some of our something near the maximum now at Which we are note guilty, but may be own defects and see how far from per tainabis, about three tines' as much the reason we are not guilty of hisfectien we may be, energy would be available for the pro• particular sin is because it does hot The farmer grows his crops without ductive industries of the country, The appeal to as so strongly as some oth- any practical help from the govern- inareasiug price of coal Is causing ens do. We all•have weaknesses, and ment, and his right to them is iridis- many old, ineilcieiit steam power what appeals to you night not tempt putable. plants to bo replaced by modern ones GERMANY'S AIMS ALMOST ATTAINED 'AS NOT OFFERED TO RESTORE ANY OF HER CONQUESTS: Pan -German Dream of Great Middle European Em.'pire is Now 90 Per Cent. Realized. If one should go back and look at the span -German maps, already forgot- ten, one would see that the patriots of that time had drawn across Central Europe new and striking frontiers and that these 'frontiers were based upon certain commercial and ethnographic will respond at pregular times just as it war critic, new Ger- many the vital details in Mitteleuropa that Proper food properly digested will many the Mitteleuropa—was to be had escaped the Germans, and, de- do much for one's health and happi-. bounded on the west by a line drawn spite the contemporary view, all save ram.front, Belfort to the mouth of , the Calais were within the grasp of Ger- It is a mistake to eat too much, We toe bbe ie i, Calais aiid Antwerp were many whenever she chose to concen- should try to enjoy our meals'try pay- ts' naval and commercial ports trate the guns and men necessary to ing attention to the taste of food. Do upon the Clhainel• and the North Sea, take them. She chose rather to seek not gulp it down. It should be All the cpai districts of Lens and the .a larger triumph at Verdun, which masticated and tasted so as to stimu- in valleys of th Sambre and the Sahel a would have enabled her to gather in late those nerves which reflect their n Prance and Belgium were to beher ov"n time the remaining fruits�of sense on the other nerves controlling German. ,'I'he_ iron districts of the her great successes. the glands of digestion. Lorraine frontier and the Meuse were The fall of Riga now means merely When you feel indigestion after eat - Eastward the German line was to has chosen to take one of to be joined, to a German state, that she hing a meal, note the ingredients eaten, eat itself try ,to con - mouth mouth of the Dniester River. Riga run from the Gulf of Riga to the ! those forts because the effort was no and should it repeat longedt and the prize had a mo- vitt the guilty food and dismiss' it from your dietary. yo and Libau were to be new commercial ral value for a public which had re- Don't make eating a task, but a ports of Germany upon the Baltic Po- cantly faced disasters in the West pleasure. of Saloniki, and a British army was going to defeat and surrender before Bagdad, In February, 1916, Germany came. west to make the great Verdun at- tack, which was designed to Brush the sole remaining force effectively in the field at the moment. Could the French army have been broken Mitteleuropa Regularity Vital To Health. would have been a permanent fact, for many months :were to 'pass before Regular hours for retiring must be Great Britain could yet be ready° for considered as one of the best methods her work at the Somme. Mitteleuropa for securing good. sleep• was destroyed at Verdun. Every day The human body has a wonderful since has seen the slow ebb of Ger- periodicity.in all its spontaneous ac - man hope to preserve that empire tions, and by studying these. much of which German armies, Germaxi states- the' machinery of health may be made men and German soldiers had created to work smoothly, from the Baltic to the Garden of Witness one habit of walking at a ear- tain hour to which we have been accus- tomed, ccustomed, Regularity of eating is most import- ant for health, The digestive tract Eden, from the Dwina to the coast of Flanders, facing the British Isles. The Fall of Riga. In 1916 Calais, Riga, Saloniki and ideate ideasags Frank H. Simonds, the Basra, the port of Bagdad, were all other habits will repeat themselves. land was to be erected. into a subject and a denial of the hope of peace The su lac military significance of Riga is small, Youth demands a greater variety destate, reserving only geographical to be because the war must be won or lost and quantity of food than does old taken Bessarabia was ao Ru- age, and, especially does it require takan'from Russia and joined to R,u- now on the western front. and every regiment and gun of the'Germans di- more protein and meat. Ki nia which v Berlin could believenally vented from this critical field is a gain Learning what foodstuffs best suit King Carol lived would be an ally and for the allies, But on the moral side is one of the great educational tasks not an enemy. it would be folly to mistake the value man has before him, for he no longer Specific German Aims, has the intuition of the lower animals. to the German leaders, who desire Austrian Trieste and Greek Saloniki still to bring back Provinces and pow- The latter seem to inherit a sense that were to be German I directs them to what is best for their ports upon the er from their war, of a new success Adriatic and the Aegean. Greece,1 and -the attainment of one of the ob- bodily wants. The vast majority of _. animals can differentiate between — poisonous and nonpoisonous food- stuffs. Germany's Great "Miitteieuropa" Empire Were the war to stop to -day Germany would 'have achieved 90 per cent. of her war aims in Europe and Asia. The black represents.what is virtually the Germany of to -day. See Frank H,Siinonds' illuminating article on :Page 17 of th'e General Section. Bulgaria, Rumania, were to be sol- diers, servants and silent partners. Serbia was• to be destroyed, its terri- tory divided between. Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary. show that it takes a sweat gland gram more than ninety per cent. of all _that Turkey•wah to be the arch by which she hoped to achieve when she began , two to two and one-half months to, German Central Europe crossed the the war. Napoleon at the height of mTxufacture one drop of sweet, his power had not a greater success Clte skin absorbs alae. ,lienee e. on the map than Germany has. Ger- must be kept clean as well as active. pian failure has been in her inability Porous clothing, light, and preferably to destroy France before England pre- white in color, is best because it per - Great made his great invasion, This pared for war and in her inability to nits light and air to reach the slain. railroad Was to., be the life line, the wear out England and France before The daily cold Lath and bi-weekly spinal column;-of•:.Asiatic empire. Un- the United States began to send- its cleansing bath at night (daily in warm der the walls bf Aleppo the Germans men to the conflict. To -day the war weather) are essential means of skin had planned 'to 'erect a railroad sta- can have but one of two endings - if hygiene. tion lir which armies should change Germany is not to dominate the cars,as their -tide of invasion was di- world. The allies must either win a SHELL AIDS WAR ROMANCE. rested by the Hedjaz railroad to Suez, decisive battle in the field or they -- or by the.8agdad line to Basra at th'e' must continue to exert and multiply Society Giri Fines Fiance Baird, But head of the Persian Gulf, and beyond, the pressure upon Germany until hon- Ile Will Iderover, in due cotilse of time, India Was to ger, casualties, economic ruin, finally One of the bits of romance on the beckon other. German armies of con- quest. on- compel the masses of the German pee- battle front, whose nazre, is legion, quest ple to lay aside the dream of world , When the cam aign of 1915 was cane to light re other day. Alo- p �, power and to consent to the restore- cicty girl qzi �.rrelled with hoe soldier , ovet Germany had almost completed. tion of Belgium, Serbia, and Romania, flance and he rushed to the front, die-,' the erection of her Mitteleuropa. Her as well as of France. And, despite tez'minsd to throw away his lift. wale>, armies were still within reaf'h of her parliamentary gestures, the real heartbroken, became a ours and soon' Calais; Antwerp was hers; Warsaw, power in Germany, which is the. after was sent to 'ranee. There :.ha' Libati; her ..long-range artilleryreach- 'throne and the army, has never yet was assigned to caro for an officer ed Riga; her advancing armies had signified its intention to part with a who had been blinded by a fragment overrun•Serbia and reached the Gold- single portion of this huge Mittel - 'en Horn; her Bulgarian ally was al- europa; not even Belgium has been of - most Within. sight of the ancient walls fered back by the Hohenzollerns. The Human •Skin • The human skin possesses a very ex- tensive sewerage system. Microscopic examination of the skin shows it to contain numerous minute tubes, each about one-fourth of an inch in length. The greater part of this tubing is coiled up in the fat just beneath the skin. The tubing opens upon the surface and continually discharges a watery secretion known as sweat. Under ordinary circunistanees the amount of -liquid discharged through the sweat glands is small, according to the best authorities, amounting to an ounce and one-half an hour, When the body is exposed to great heat, and especially during muscular activity, the amount of perspiration may be increased to thirty or forty times the ordinary amount, or two or three pints an hour. The average amount is about forty ounces, or one and one-half pints, each twenty-four hours. The .anatomists tell us that in the eutire'twenty square feet of skin with Which the body of a full-sized man is covered there are about three million sweat glands, aggregating twelve miles of tubing. Each one of these three million jectives which were in their minds sweat glands produces during a life - when they made their first attack. time of sixty years about one-third Holds Mitteleuropa To -day. of an ounce, or three hundred drops, Germany has achieved territorially of sweat. A little computation will Hellespont into Asia Minor. The Bag- dad railroad, when the war began, was pushing southward under . the Cilieian gates by which Alexander the that c nivert a higher percentage of belongings. At last the task of load- the fuel consumed into power. ing carne to an end. Ne lected Plunder. "Is that all?" inquired.the cabman g with polite incredulity. The lady of many portable posses- "Yes," was the reply. clans ;<was moving from town to the The cabman looked surprised. seashore for the summer. A cab had "Seems a pity," he ejaculated, "to been thought big enough to convey her and her property to the station, and the cabman sat there, passing a Two hundred spruce trees go into from tine stage of disgust to another one edition of a Montreal newspaper stills deeper, while his vehicle, inside and a New 'York, paper obliterates 15 sand ;olxt,. was piled high with a mis- acres of spruce and balsam forest with cellancous• assortment of cherished a single Sunday edition. leave the doorstep." of shell. It \vas her fiance. she did not reveal her identity, cut did everything she could to mitigate his suffering. One day he asked her to write a 1o'ce letter for him at his dic- tation. It proved to be to hie fie -use in Englaxid--•herself. She began tak- ing the dictation, but broke Mown and revealed herself. A complete roconc"lindon followed,. although it was believed that he was hopelessly blind, A few tiny tater, however, the surgeon made a re-exam.. in.ation and found the soldier's sight could be restored, An operation was performed. 'The wedding will follow when the bandages are il'cinoved frozix his eyee. 1 4 .'M •v •w 1 d w 1 e r 1 A 1 9 r 1 J 1 44 4 1