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THE CHINA

ODDS AND ENDS

The Apple.

domestic worker, should not look The Land of Allhouettes, There is one article upon the forward to being a great chef- The seaward edge of that East- beneficial properties of which all cooking is an art, a minor art ern country is fatat as a authorities appear to agres but an art nevertheless — the namely, the apple. Though such caterer at some grand restaurant,"map," it was once described by, a common fruit, many are not the head of one of the big hotels, Robert Buchanan. In one region fully aware of the apple's valuable the manager of a large laundry in particular it is a land of wastes, medical properties. It is claim-or she may collect around her af rank and tussocky grass, ed on its behalf that the apple la staff of workers, and engage to an excellent brain-food, owing to the amount of phosphoric acid it containe in an easily digestible form; that it excites the netion of FA Scotamen was arrested and culable floods that hide these the liver, promotes sound and bod uver for playing the bug things equally under their sur healthy sleep, and thoroughly dis-pipes in the roots of Preston face as far as the eye can reach infects the mouth, assists, the Lancashire, owing to the annoyWhere possible the land is tilled kidney secretion, prevents thence he was easing the populace. I and cultivated to the edge of the

run blocks of flats Mary Gaunt of sedgy waterways, of mud in the "Women's Magazine.", and ooze, and sometimes, The Piper of Preston.

for its waters are tidál, of incal

might have gone down mightily inhere it sounded far from sweet Cale died in the open street--

formation of stone, obviates in- digestion, and is one of the best ng down the valleys wild,

Piping songs of untive glee, preventives of diseases of the In this glens where he was child throat, and lust, but not least, it Is said, next to the lemon or the orange, to be the best antidote for the thirst and craving of those addicted to the alcohol and oplum habis. This reads like the legend of the wonderful apple of Samarkand in "The Arabian Such ns before he would only maid Nights," the mere smelling of Terg

rich min rolled and died by

gutter;

and the munte was led Foul ward

to ulter

which was a remedy for every | Th, very constable of paint duy human ailment. Its botanical Doubled up, and then came down in name malum (despite the long | What is commonly called n "") is a libel, seeing it is all beunty." good. We have a couplet that long all right, formy, mum's

Brownin "an apple a day keeps the doctor away," especially when eaten just before going to bed; and then Americans, who have always been great "boosters" at the fruit. have another jingle-

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Are you feeling kinder sick, Like a rug the chickens pick? Are you feeling, cross and

worried?

Wish, almost, you're dead and

buried?-

Eat an apple;

which, while not ranking high as poetry, reveals the proper spirit towards the apple. In 1906 the Americans started

A damsel with a dulcimer

inlets, though even then some times turned by the foods into sultings; but mostly it is a hope. less and Irreclaimable waste, the undisturbed home of the eand- piper, the dunlin, and the curlew; and the black ooze of the channels is the breeding-place of crabs in unnumbered thousands.

Half a mile inland you may find ocea sional farmhouses, but even on the deserted fringes man has not been beaten. From any point, mile after mile, as far as the eye can reach, stretch the earthworks he has built against his, im memorial foe, the sun that he has taken upon himself to hold and to bind, and against which still, old as are those barriers, year after, year he sets his vigilance and re- news: his defences. There is something better than the merely geometrical m this long line of earth walls; there is something. noble, almost Roman.. Their flat narrow pps wind everywhere Finto

space that seems im- be almost without meaning "but measurable space that would.

flecked sky: there to tell you that for the covering dome of cloud-

you are still below and among finite things. There is a delight in that country, on a clear day, in the resting of the eye on the un- in the bubbel of this sued by variations in lund and broken level distances, undisturb ing town

a vichorobre l ́sceir; wakenik, then u-durida', 'er, But this bloke was far worse o "er He made us all feel groente

Brignall banks are wild and fair wish that he or were there! Ha wis a muun with soglio dend. He never to himself huljepią,

watering in strmant. This in any owns my native had.

And when his mun raptures

swellest

The pepulice Dheir was held Deus with his inte mude tres How themselves; and so did be-- anAppleAnd men bent down and giped Week" which bids fair to become p their knees.

A

The angry generations feel him water, and hardly by a tree (save

down,

perhaps for an occasional pollard

:

And this the dirges the min-feel sang - willow clinging desperately to a

them there:

a national institution, and very And howled in mortal agony, to amusing are some of the notices T that heruid its advent--for exam- ple, "Eve viii. F. Adam vili. 1-2

and now that Prohibition is in active operation they will doubt- less be enlarged upon year by year, though, to judge from the Als: Why book met with recent increase in tea-drinking in

cessaut care?** the United States, the Inhabitants They answering did save; - are trying to drown their dryness ↑ "Hetice kantled, melancholy, in "the cups that cheer, but not of those fends dinggis inebriate. Following this lead a Bayock born!' "Fruit Week" has been inaugarunth Bylo ; "Baricckbura?")) ated in various centres of Grent Be was expoßud that day, Britain, when a great amount of That horrid shape wirls shrinks and advertisement is focussed on the kilts aitholy.

dyke-side), a delight in the effect. "in-of space that is missing from the beauty of a hilly country.--- L. A. Pavey in the "Adelphi." Violets! Sweet Violets!

fuos

...

health value of fruit, and childrennd a sadder and a Wiser"mw he are invited to compete for barrels ruse the morçDA (Ori of apples or boxes of oranges.Academy Magazine,

Tonewood, in the lady Cross Scotland has taken up the idea The Cat in France. with enthusiasm. James T. Johnston in "Chamber's Journal;" A Stepping Stone.

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Sentimentally regarded, is not this the finest of street-cries, finer even than the Edinburgh one-Whu'll buy my dulsé and tang, dulse and tang" in other

words seaweed? For the violet is a universal favourite, beauti-! ful in colour and form, and in-itsi best expression fragrant. The plant is at home on sunny banks with its flowers half hidden among the leaves, sometimes not far off the ground, sometimes showing face, like a shy fairy, with a "dewy eye of blue.” Ruskin said that it was seen most perfectly for setting off its colour in group with primrose. Perhaps one of the reasons why we like the violet so much is to be the flower in its hiding place. As found in the thrill of detecting

Wordsworth said:-- --

A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Another reason for man's liking for the sweet violet is that it appears so early. It is often ahead of the spring, and Byron called it "the Morning Star of all the flowers? It is sometimes known as the March violet. Greece, and South Italy. It is even a flower of the winter, and

The ent holds peculiar position in France, which is not unlike that of the slog (points out, the Mun Domestic service should be anester Guardian."), For one thing, honourable calling. No woman linette," she is called, should lose caste by doing it, any for walks, very often with a ring more than, she loses caste now-and her neck. It is not at uk adays by doing farm work. The common in the less fashionable parts remedy for the present state of Paris te bew at being thin things lies with the women..

Let along on a string, protest. It is any house mistress, any daughter true, but in vain, for the French do of the house who reads this, not recognise, cat pyelology article, look at her servants being anything special or part quarters with seeing eyes, and Moreover, French cuts domot neces ask herself how she would like to sarity walle by themselves. Cut the be condemned to live in. them rive gauche, every evening, the under like conditions. If she spectacle may be seen of a troop of could not do it happily, then she cuts being taken for their nightly. muat improve things. For, of wiring. They walk gurely round a course, domestic work, once the bleak of building shaped like conditions are improved, should triangle, and having as few from be but a stepping stone to better ings possible. Sometimes they things. A girl taking it up should are greeted by a dog or two, but do so with the intention of pass usually their numbere alone serve to ing on to something better. She keep the dog at such a distance that must go through the mail as the nothing but a few impertinentre captain of a great liner with marks are possible the neigh millions of money and, the safety bourhood of the Halles, where cats Ruskin quoted in this connection, and lives of thousands in his care congregate, there is very evening in the "Proserpina," the lines: In has begun by polishing the brassort of cat banquet. An eldary one of Byron's songs and knotting the rope ends, or thefequenter of the Hulles collects the spring is come, the violet's builder of bridges and dams betray food during the day, and makes. gan with the trifting drift jobs in heads, and other delicacies, which

u sort of buillabaise of bread, fiebon the engineers' yards. So she will then served to the cat population learn the ropes, not as my lady late at night, when there is the least who stays in bed for breakfast fear of its being disturbed.The and issues her orders knows them, ents know the exact time of the but intimately, looking at things feast, pad if it is late they con with the trained mind that can gregude with all the appearstice of pian and arrange and see how impatient diners who will certainly. provements can be made. I can refuse to tip the ter if they are BER no reason why a girl, a badly served:

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The firet-born child of the early

With us, she is but a winter's

flower:

The snow on the hills cannot

·· blast her bower,

And she lifts her dewy eye of

blue

To the youngest aky of the s

same hue.

It was the kind of questi that Ruskin liked Why

should call

Itan

glowing,"→→ There is no

as to the "glowin

between Fül!

blue

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