The Rhos Herald

DEATH FROM SELF-NEGLECT. —*— STRANGE INQUEST STORY. A remarkable story was told it am inquest held on Monday evening on the body of Miss Rosa. Oladwvn, aged fifty-eight, of Burns- i #freeC, Nottingham, who, although she had Ireeri ill in bed four years, had refused m'edical assistance. No doctor had been fu»mon«d by Miss Marv Ann Higham and 'Miss Pearce, who lived with her. Miss Higham stated that Miss Gladwyn .IrMsted im the Lord. A Nottingham lady "1D.e to pray and lay hands on her, and to jxrar oil over her. Services, at which men liad sometimes attended, had been held in house. Miss Gladwyn was last washed &ix weeke ago. She had refused to be washed #in.ee, but disinfectants were used. )4jSK Pearce said Miss Gladwyn had bed ffo-res some time ago, but God had healed them. Or. Gilbard Smith stated that Miss ■ Crbidwya was dead when he was called in, but he could not convince the other inmates M ilie, house that she was dead. "God had her she was not going to die," they said. He had to bring another doctor there to convince them. He believed they were .quite sincere and believed l Divine assur- Anee. Death was due to exhaustion, follow- ing blood poisoning from neglected bed sores, which Mid eateiy to the bone. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from self-neglect/' and severely censured f:She witnesses Pearce and Higham.

BOY SCOUT'S GOOD SERVICE. In a serious fire which broke out early on JMonday morning at the hollow-ware foundry of Messrs. Pugh and Co., on the boundary of the parishes of Wednesbury and West Bromwich, splendid service was rendered in extinguishing the flames by a number of Boy Scouts who 'Were camping out a short distance from the foundry. The damage is estimated at upwards of £ 4,000, ard it is stated that but for the a.s-. distance rendered by the Scouts to the two fire brigades in moving the hose and procuring water the damage would have been much greater. The efforts of the boys were praised both the owners of the works and firemen.

At Willesden a. barrister gave the name of 'Raphael.' The Clerk: Not J. E. Raphael, ghe celebrated international Rugby football player? Mr. Raphael: Not celebrated. I do p]&y Rugbv sometimes, 'I ho Clerk (enthu- siastically) You do. I've seen yon many a ■ iime.

BOYS ATTEMPT SUICIDE. 0 Two remarkable cases of boys attempting to take their own lives were reported on Monday from Enfield and Reading. At Enfield Police-court Hugh Nicol, twelve, a schoolboy, of jjakeshire-roaa, PalmerVgreen, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking a quantity ot blue enamel. It was statej that when a police-constable was called to tne house, the prisoner's mother told him that he had been trying to poison him- self by taking blue enamel, and also that she had only jaist been in time to prevent him from swallowing some lotion. This witness asked him why he did it, and the boy replied, "I am sick and tired of college, and 1 will net go." One of the magistrates asked him why he behaved in such a way, and he replied, "i hate the school. Nicol further stated that he had been ill- treated by the boys, and he did not want to go back, as he had been fighting with another lad I who was bigger than himself. The boys played pranks with him, and it made him miserable. Prisoner's mother said she had divorced her husband, and was living with her mother. The boy had lived with his father. He was "older than his years," and was not used to other boys. On pro/nising not to be foolish again accused was allowed to go. At Reading Charles Henry Smith, aged eleven, was charged with having at Reading unlawfully attempted to strangle hiinsolf. The evidence showed that the boy was seen rolling on the grass in the public recreation ground as though in agony, and that on a man coining up to him he saw that the boy had a bootlace tied tirr,1lTlv round his neck, and that he was gagged with a cloth, as the result of which he had turned black in the face. When freed he said some man did it and then ran away, but later said, "I don't know what I did it for." The boy's parents said he was well cared for. Detective Purdy said defendant and two other children of the family were neglected, ill- treated, and frequently without food. Defen- dant, it was alleged, once tried to hang him- self. He was remanded for further inquiries.

THUNDERSTORM HAVOC. During a heavy thunderstorm on Monday Green Nook Farm, Inskip, near Preston. was fired by lightning. The buildings were completely gutted. A house in Ilereford-road, Horn-lane, Acton, was struck by lightning, one of the chimneys carried off, and the roof split open.. The fireplace in one of the rooms of the house was completely shifted from its position, and a large quantity of masonry fell from the roof into the apartments below, damaging a good deal of the furni- ture. Fortunately, there was no one in the house at the time, all its occupants being away on their holidays. I ) A v boat at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, < belonging to the harbour-master, was struck < by lightning. The mast was torn clean | away, and its top cut off. Fortunately, no I one was on board at the time. At Enderby, Leicestershire, a house was | struck. A chimney-stack fell, and a fire- place was damaged in a room containing | struck. A chimney-stack fell, and a fire- place was damaged in a room containing | two children. One child was struck on the head, but not seriously hurt. One of the worst storms, accompanied by lightning and heavy thunder, which has taken place for a long period broke in the early hours of Monday morning over North Shropshire, North Staffordshire, and South Cheshire. At Market Drayton several horses in the fields bolted, and one, attempt- ing to jump a barbed wire fence, was cut about the body very badly.

CHILD BURNT TO DEATH. At Birkcnhead, a jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against a middle-aged woman named Mary Ellen Windsor. The evidence showed that on the morning of Sunday, August 7, an infant girl, aged seven months, was found sitting on the fire in the kitchen. A neigh- bour removed the child, which was dead. The body was so badly burned that it was impos- sible to hold a post-mortem examination. After the discovery, the mother appeared to be almost insane, and to have no recollection of the tragedy. When informed of what had oc- curred, she asked for a knife with which to cut her throat. She also appealed to the doctor t to kill her. It was stated at the inquest that the woman was subject to epileptic fits. had a wound in the forehead, of which s'hc imd no knowledge. When rational again, the •woman was greatly distressed, and asked the doctor if the child would feel th/ pain of the burns. She added, "To think that I could do it." She told the doctor that she had been brooding over the case of a. young woman sen- tenced to death at Liverpool Assizes for mur- dering her child, and, further, that she had been worrying over money matters, having only 18s. a week on which to keep her family.

r UNEMPLOYED RAID A CHURCH. A number of Manchester unemployed men. who on Sunday took possession of the disused church of St. Martin's, German-street, one of the slum neighbourhoods of the city, and occu- pied it as a shelLer all night, were on Monday morning expelled by the police, who had rc- framed from taking action until armed with the authority of the trustees. The men, num- bering 200 or more, made no resistance when ordered to leave the premises. One of the raiders, a Corporation workman, was bound over by the City magistrates on a charge of street obstruction in connection with Sunday's proceedings, which had caused the assemblage of large crowds in the street adjoining1 the church. The building ceased to be used as a place of worship a few years ago under a local Act of Parliament amalgamating a number of city parishes with dwindling resident population, and since then it has been a gathering place for some of the more turbulent youths of the neighbourhood. Steps have, however, now been taken to prevent further desecration of the building.

Leading Stoker James William Humphreys, of H.M.S. Welland, Sheerness, committed sui- cide by hanging himself in the ship's bunker. Sir Samuel Evans, the Vacation Judge, made absolute the decree nisi granted in twenty-six matrimonial suits. At a meeting of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company in Dublin, Sir Wil- liam J. Goulding, Chairman, referring to the recent Roscrea railway accidents, said the Board was prepared at once to make fair com- pensation to those injured.

HOME HINTS. .0 Soap and chalk mixed and rubbed tm cuS* iew spots will remove them. The application of a fresh slice of onion to a wasp or bee sting gives instant and often permanent relief. An excellent way of cleaning wall-paper is to dip a piece of flannel in plaster of paris, and to rub well. Use a duster afterwards to re- move any whiteness. Of courae the plaster must be used dry. To preserve books from damp and possible mildew, a few drope of good perfumed oil should be sprinkled in the bookcases. This precaution is unnecessary in the case of volumes bound in Russia leather, as this is not eus- eeptible to damp. Before applying furniture polish, wring out a cloth from very hot water and rab it over the furniture quickly wipe dry. Then apply the furniture polish in the usual way, and a very high polish may be obtained which will not1 finger-mark. Do not set a bed with the side against a wall, if there is any other place in the room where it can be put. Physicians are much opposed to the idea of anyone sleeping close to a wall. If the bed must stand there through the day, pull it out into the room at night, that a free eir- culiition of air may be had on all sides. Stone Cream.—Dissolve half an ounce of gelatine in a little water, then add one pint ol sweetened milk, which has been boiled with lemon peel. When cold, pour slowly over a layer of jam in a deep glass dish. Let it set, and then adorn with strips of blanched almonds. Ambrosia.—Take six or eight oranges, peel and slice them, sprinkling the slices with sugar, and arrange h em in a dessert dish. Take the inside of a cocoa-nut, peel off all the brown rind, grate it, then spread it over the oranges till they are completely covered. No syrup of poppies, no tincture of opium, no powder or morphine can compare in sleep- inducing with sunshine. Therefore it is easily understood that sufferers from insomnia should pass as many hours as possible in sunshine, living to a great extent in the air. Egg Birds' Nests.—Butter four slices of toasted bread, put the whites of four eggs inti. one bowl and yolks in another. Add salt to the whites, and beat until stiff enough to turn the bowl upside down without spilling the eggs. Pile the beaten whites on the toasted bread, leaving a hole in the centre of each piece. Into this carefully place the yolk of an egg, put a wee bit of butter on it and bake at once to suit the taste. Serve hot. Good Black Coffee.-Grind your coffee the day it is required, and allow a tablespoonful and a half to each person when putting it into the percolator. Pour on this one and a quarter pints of water for every three persons, and you will have really good coffee. It is well to com- mence operations quite an hour before re- quired, so that the coffee will have time to run through twice. Stand the percolator on the hob, so as to keep it hot, but the contents must not boil. A London physician, at a meeting of a medical society, stated that extraction of teeth was unnecessary. He was enabled to cure the most desperate case of toothache, he said, unless the case was connected with rheumatism, by the application of the following remedy to the diseased tooth:—Alum, reduced to an im- palpable powder, two drachms; nitrous spirits of ether, seven drachms mix and apply to the tooth. Almost any head of hair will be benefited by an occasional egg shampoo. The yolk --on- tains iron and sulphur, which nourishes the roots, and the white a small alkali which unites with the oil of the scalp to form a lather. The egg should be beaten up with an ounce of water and thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and then rinsed out with several successively cooler waters, finishing with as cold water as can be comfortably borne. Useful Frying Batter.—A good frying batter for fish vegetables, or meat is made as follows: -Mix four ounces of flour with a tablespoonful of salad oil till quite a smooth paste, adding by degrees one gill of water, and allow it to stand in a cool place for an hour or two. When re- quired for use whip the whites of egsrs to a very stiff froth, and add them as lightly'as pos. sible to the mixture. Dip the slices of meat j or fish into this, lift out with a fork, and drop j into boiling fat. > Broad Beans With Cream.—Shell sufficient beans to fill a quart measure. Put them on to eook in a pan of fast-boiling water with a little salt. When nearly done dra.in them in a colander, and put in a saucepan wi.th half a pint of stock, a little parskv, chopped fine, and a small lump of sugar. Stew the beans slowly, till they are quite ter-der. and the stock is les- sened, then beat up the yolk of one egg, and add to it a quarter of a pint of cream or mille then put both with the beans, let the whole get 11 thoroughly hot, but do not kt it boil. Season with pepper and salt, and put in a hot dish and serve. CAKES AND PUDDINGS.—No. 36. A very good and decorative pudding is made from the following recipe, which is not expen- sive. This recipe gained one of the prizes offered by the Proprietors of Cakeoma recently. recently. ETHEREAL PUDDING. Sent by Mrs. Frost, Blaina, Mon. 1 packet Cakeoma. 8 oz. fine chopped Suet, 2 or 3 Eggs. 2 oz. Currants. 2 oz. Raisins (stoned). | oz. Candied Peel (shredded). METHOD: —Put. the Cakeoma, Suet, and a pinch of Salt into a mixing bowl; beat the Eggs and, together with sufficient Milk to make a rather stiff batter, add and mix well but lightly. Grease a mould well, and stick it. all over with the stoned Raisins, Currants, and Peel then, without disturbing them, pour in half the Pudding Batter, then put in some I Apricot Jam and the rest of the Batter. Place over it a greased paper, then tie it in a cloth and steam 2 hours, and serve with Transparent Sauce poured round. Make the sauce by mixing together I part Apricot Jam to 2 parts of boiling water, and strain. ———— i Cakeoma is sold in 3jd. packets by Grocers and Stores everywhere. J Recipe Book will be sent post free, on request to Lat-kan ind Co., Ltd., Liverpool.

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